Jean Dollimore在退休前是倫敦大學(xué)Queen Mary學(xué)院的高級(jí)研究員、最近一直在從事有關(guān)計(jì)算機(jī)支持協(xié)同工作、分布式多媒體中間件和群件安全模型方面的研究。
圖書(shū)目錄
1.Characterization of Distributed Systems (28 pages) 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Examples of distributed systems 1.3 Resource sharing and the Web 1.4 Challenges 1.5 Summary 2.System Models (36 pages) 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Architectural models 2.3 Fundamental models 2.4 Summary 3.Networking and Internetworking (60 pages) 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Types of network 3.3 Network principles 3.4 Internet protocols 3.5 Network case studies: Ethernet, wireless LAN and ATM 3.6 Summary 4.Interprocess Communication (40 pages) 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The API for the Internet protocols 4.3 External data representation and marshalling 4.4 Client-server communication 4.5 Group communication 4.6 Case study: interprocess communication in UNIX 4.7 Summary 5.Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation (42 pages) 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Communication between distributed objects 5.3 Remote procedure call 5.4 Events and notifications 5.5 Java RMI case study 5.6 Summary 6.Operating System Support (44 pages) 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The operating system layer 6.3 Protection 6.4 Processes and threads 6.5 Communication and invocation 6.6 Operating system architecture 6.7 Summary 7.Security (58 pages) 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Overview of security techniques 7.3 Cryptographic algorithms 7.4 Digital signatures 7.5 Cryptography pragmatics 7.6 Case studies: Needham-Schroeder, Kerberos, SSL & Millicent 7.7 Summary 8.Distributed File Systems (44 pages) 8.1 Introduction 8.2 File service architecture 8.3 Sun Network File System 8.4 The Andrew File System 8.5 Recent advances 8.6 Summary 9.Name Services (32 pages) 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Name services and the Domain Name System 9.3 Directory and discovery services 9.4 Case study of the Global Name Service 9.5 Case study of the X.500 Directory Service 9.6 Summary 10.Time and Global States (34 pages) 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Clocks, events and process states 10.3 Synchronizing physical clocks 10.4 Logical time and logical clocks 10.5 Global states 10.6 Distributed debugging 10.7 Summary 11.Coordination and Agreement (46 pages) 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Distributed mutual exclusion 11.3 Elections 431 11.4 Multicast communication 11.5 Consensus and related problems 11.6 Summary 12.Transactions and Concurrency Control (50 pages) 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Transactions 12.3 Nested transactions 12.4 Locks 12.5 Optimistic concurrency control 12.6 Timestamp ordering 12.7 Comparison of methods for concurrency control 12.8 Summary 13.Distributed Transactions (38 pages) 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Flat and nested distributed transactions 13.3 Atomic commit protocols 13.4 Concurrency control in distributed transactions 13.5 Distributed deadlocks 13.6 Transaction recovery 13.7 Summary 14.Replication (54 pages) 14.1 Introduction 14.2 System model and group communication 14.3 Fault-tolerant services 14.4 Highly available services 14.5 Transactions with replicated data 14.6 Summary 15.Distributed Multimedia Systems (28 pages) 15.1 Introduction 15.2 Characteristics of multimedia data 15.3 Quality of service management 15.4 Resource management 15.5 Stream adaptation 15.6 Case study: the Tiger video file server 15.7 Summary 16.Distributed Shared Memory (34 pages) 16.1 Introduction 16.2 Design and implementation issues 16.3 Sequential consistency and Ivy 16.4 Release consistency and Munin 16.5 Other consistency models 16.6 Summary 17.Corba Case Study (30 pages) 17.1 Introduction 17.2 CORBA RMI 17.3 CORBA services 17.4 Summary 18.Mach Case Study (24 pages) 18.1 Introduction 18.2 Ports, naming and protection 18.3 Tasks and threads 18.4 Communication model 18.5 Communication implementation 18.6 Memory management 18.7 Summary