Reliable Distributed Systems: Technologies, Web Services, & Applications

Description

Reviews and describes the key concepts, principles and applications of modern distributed computing systems and architectures. This book is useful for both advanced students and practitioners in computer science, computer networks and distributed systems.

CONTENTS:

* Preface

* Introduction

* A User's Guide to This Book

* Trademarks

* Part I: Basic Distributed Computing Technologies

* Fundamentals

* Basic Communication Services

* High Assurance Communication

* Remote Procedure Calls and the Client/Server Model

* Styles of Client/Server Computing

* CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Architecture

* System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication

* Part II: Web Technologies

* The World Wide Web

* Major Web Technologies

* Web Services

* Related Internet Technologies

* Platform Technologies

* Part III: Reliable Distributed Computing

* How and Why Computer Systems Fail

* Overcoming Failures in a Distributed System

* Dynamic Membership

* Group Communication Systems

* Point to Point and Multi-group Considerations

* The Virtual Synchrony Execution Model

* Consistency in Distributed Systems

* Part IV: Applications of Reliability Techniques

* Retrofitting Reliability into Complex Systems

* Software Architectures for Group Communication

* Part V: Related Technologies

* Security Options for Distributed Settings

* Clock Synchronization and Synchronous Systems

* Transactional Systems

* Peer-to-Peer Systems and Probabilistic Protocols

* Prospects for Building Highly Assured Web Services

* Other Distributed and Transactional Systems

* Appendix: Problems

* Bibliography

* Index