Distributed Computing
Subtitle: Principles, Algorithms, and Systems
Contributors: Singhal, Mukesh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 756
ISBN-13: 9780511393419
Subjects: Electronic data processing
Description: This comprehensive textbook covers the principles and models underlying the theory, algorithms and systems aspects of distributed computing.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 A model of distributed computations; CHAPTER 3 Logical time; CHAPTER 4 Global state and snapshot recording algorithms; CHAPTER 5 Terminology and basic algorithms; CHAPTER 6 Message ordering and group communication; CHAPTER 7 Termination detection; CHAPTER 8 Reasoning with knowledge; CHAPTER 9 Distributed mutual exclusion algorithms; CHAPTER 10 Deadlock detection in distributed systems; CHAPTER 11 Global predicate detection; CHAPTER 12 Distributed shared memory.; title: CHAPTER 13 Checkpointing and rollback recoveryCHAPTER 14 Consensus and agreement algorithms; CHAPTER 15 Failure detectors; CHAPTER 16 Authentication in distributed systems; CHAPTER 17 Self-stabilization; CHAPTER 18 Peer-to-peer computing and overlay graphs; Index.