- Hardcover: 944 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 4 edition (14 Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321263545
- ISBN-13: 978-0321263544
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 19 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 117,356 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Broad and up-to-date coverage of the principles and practice in this fast moving area. Includes the key issues in the debate between components and web services as the way forward for industry.
The depth of coverage will enable students to evaluate existing distributed systems and design new ones.
From the Back Cover
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Concepts and Design
Fourth Edition
George Coulouris Jean Dollimore Tim Kindberg
'This book is simply the standard by which all other Distributed Systems texts are measured.'
Amazon.co.uk review of the third edition
From mobile phones to the Internet, our lives depend increasingly on distributed systems linking computers and other devices together in a seamless and transparent way. The fourth edition of this best-selling text continues to provide a comprehensive source of material on the principles and practice of distributed computer systems and the exciting new developments based on them, using a wealth of modern case studies to illustrate their design and development.
Highlights of the fourth edition include:
Ø Three entirely new chapters on peer-to-peer systems, web services, and mobile and ubiquitous systems.
Ø More than 25 detailed case studies of well-known systems, eight of them new, including studies of the Grid, Cooltown, Bluetooth andthe (in)security of the WiFi WEP protocol.
Ø Updated coverage of XML and its security extensions, the Advanced Encryption Standard and security design for ubiquitous systems.
Distributed Systems provides students of computer science and engineering with the skills they will need to design and maintain software for distributed applications. It will also be invaluable to software engineers and systems designers wishing to understand new and future developments in the field.
George Coulouris is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Jean Dollimore was, until her retirement, Senior Lecturer in computer science at Queen Mary College, Universityof London. Tim Kindberg is a Senior Researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol.
Check out www.cdk4.net or www.pearsoned.co.uk/coulouris for a rich set of resources for students and instructors, including:
Ø The book bibliography with links to relevant online references.
Ø PowerPoint teaching slides.
Ø Presentation guidelines for instructors.
Ø Solutions to all exercises (for instructors only).
Ø Material from previous editions that will not fit in this one.
Ø Source code for all program listings.
Ø Links to many courses using the book.
Ø A carefully maintained errata list … and more!
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ideal book for cramming on the night before the exam!,
This review is from: Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design, 3rd Ed. (Hardcover)
The ideas and concepts of distributed systems are explained so clearly and simply that you spend little time trying to understand the concepts - you understand them as soon as you read them.This book gives quite an in depth explanation of the concepts, which can give too much detail which beyond the course's syllabus - this is where the summary section comes into its own. If you are a student and this is the main book for your course - take the course! Even if the lectures are boring, the book wont be.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Distributed Systems? The Definitive Text.,
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This review is from: Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design, 3rd Ed. (Hardcover)
This book is simply the standard by which all other Distributed Systems texts are measured. If you are coming to this book with a basic understanding of Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Networks and TCP/IP, you will leave this text with a thorough understanding of the essential principles of the discipline. Fantastic.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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If distributed systems are for you, so is this book!!,
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This review is from: Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design, 3rd Ed. (Hardcover)
After using the 2nd edition of this book, I was really pleased at the new material in this revision - there is enough to warrant the purchase of the new 3rd edition as numerous sections of the book have been reworked and brought up to date, notably in Java implementation sections. Overall, and without going in to too much detail about the book - there's too much to go in to really - I can't recommend this book enough for both experienced programmers and newcomers to the concept of distributed and real-time systems.
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