分布式系统概念与设计（英文版.第3版） (2008 年度畅销榜NO.4787 )

对本书的评价 '在分布式系统领域．我不知道还有没有更好的书．但我毫不犹豫地推荐这本书。”\r\n　　　　　　　 ——Jan Madey,《IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology》杂志 \r\n “介绍分布式系统的最好教科书。”\r\n　　　　　 ——E.Douglas Jenen，Mire公司首席科学家，世界分布式实时系统权威 \r\n　　 这本畅销教材的第3版包含了分布式系统技术主要的最新发展。所有备章都进行了彻底的修订和更新，重点放在因特网、内联网．Web和中间件上。其他新主目包括故障建模和容错、分布式对象和分布式多媒体系统。本书非常强调算法，并结合其他相关技术讨论了安全问题。与以前版本不同的是，阅读本版不必预先具备UNIX知识。 \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n　　 和前两版一样，本书旨在提供深入的分布式系统设计原理和实践方面的知识，读者可以通过学习，掌握何评价已有系统或设计新系统。书中的实例研究阐述了每个主要论题的设计概念。 \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n　　 本书已被爱丁堡大学、南加州大学、蒙特利尔理工大学、马德里技术大学等众多名校采用为高级操作系统、分布式系统课程的教材。 \r\n\r\n\r\n　　 第3版的新内容\r\n\r\n\r\n　　　◆新增了多媒体系统服务质量、协调和一致性算法以及CORBA等章 \r\n\r\n\r\n　　　◆内容涵盖因特网和包括Web在内的应用\r\n\r\n\r\n　　　◆新增了移动计算和新的网络技术，如IPv6、移动IP和无线网络 \r\n\r\n\r\n　　　◆更加强调面向对象，并用Java和CORBA作为大多数例子的基础 \r\n\r\n\r\n　　　◆新增了因特网安全、故障建模、容错、系统执行模型方面的内容 \r\n\r\n\r\n　　　综合性的网站www.cdk3.net为读者和教师提供了补资料（勘误，源代码）\r\n
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1.Characterization of Distributed Systems (28 pages) \r\n\r\n 1.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 1.2 Examples of distributed systems \r\n\r\n 1.3 Resource sharing and the Web \r\n\r\n 1.4 Challenges \r\n\r\n 1.5 Summary \r\n\r\n 2.System Models (36 pages) \r\n\r\n 2.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 2.2 Architectural models \r\n\r\n 2.3 Fundamental models \r\n\r\n 2.4 Summary \r\n\r\n 3.Networking and Internetworking (60 pages) \r\n\r\n 3.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 3.2 Types of network \r\n\r\n 3.3 Network principles \r\n\r\n 3.4 Internet protocols \r\n\r\n 3.5 Network case studies: Ethernet, wireless LAN and ATM \r\n\r\n 3.6 Summary \r\n\r\n 4.Interprocess Communication (40 pages) \r\n\r\n 4.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 4.2 The API for the Internet protocols \r\n\r\n 4.3 External data representation and marshalling \r\n\r\n 4.4 Client-server communication \r\n\r\n 4.5 Group communication \r\n\r\n 4.6 Case study: interprocess communication in UNIX \r\n\r\n 4.7 Summary \r\n\r\n 5.Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation (42 pages) \r\n\r\n 5.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 5.2 Communication between distributed objects \r\n\r\n 5.3 Remote procedure call \r\n\r\n 5.4 Events and notifications \r\n\r\n 5.5 Java RMI case study \r\n\r\n 5.6 Summary \r\n\r\n 6.Operating System Support (44 pages) \r\n\r\n 6.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 6.2 The operating system layer \r\n\r\n 6.3 Protection \r\n\r\n 6.4 Processes and threads \r\n\r\n 6.5 Communication and invocation \r\n\r\n 6.6 Operating system architecture \r\n\r\n 6.7 Summary \r\n\r\n 7.Security (58 pages) \r\n\r\n 7.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 7.2 Overview of security techniques \r\n\r\n 7.3 Cryptographic algorithms \r\n\r\n 7.4 Digital signatures \r\n\r\n 7.5 Cryptography pragmatics \r\n\r\n 7.6 Case studies: Needham-Schroeder, Kerberos, SSL & Millicent \r\n\r\n 7.7 Summary \r\n\r\n 8.Distributed File Systems (44 pages) \r\n\r\n 8.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 8.2 File service architecture \r\n\r\n 8.3 Sun Network File System \r\n\r\n 8.4 The Andrew File System \r\n\r\n 8.5 Recent advances \r\n\r\n 8.6 Summary \r\n\r\n 9.Name Services (32 pages) \r\n\r\n 9.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 9.2 Name services and the Domain Name System \r\n\r\n 9.3 Directory and discovery services \r\n\r\n 9.4 Case study of the Global Name Service \r\n\r\n 9.5 Case study of the X.500 Directory Service \r\n\r\n 9.6 Summary \r\n\r\n 10.Time and Global States (34 pages) \r\n\r\n 10.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 10.2 Clocks, events and process states \r\n\r\n 10.3 Synchronizing physical clocks \r\n\r\n 10.4 Logical time and logical clocks \r\n\r\n 10.5 Global states \r\n\r\n 10.6 Distributed debugging \r\n\r\n 10.7 Summary \r\n\r\n 11.Coordination and Agreement (46 pages) \r\n\r\n 11.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 11.2 Distributed mutual exclusion \r\n\r\n 11.3 Elections 431 \r\n\r\n 11.4 Multicast communication \r\n\r\n 11.5 Consensus and related problems \r\n\r\n 11.6 Summary \r\n\r\n 12.Transactions and Concurrency Control (50 pages) \r\n\r\n 12.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 12.2 Transactions \r\n\r\n 12.3 Nested transactions \r\n\r\n 12.4 Locks \r\n\r\n 12.5 Optimistic concurrency control \r\n\r\n 12.6 Timestamp ordering \r\n\r\n 12.7 Comparison of methods for concurrency control \r\n\r\n 12.8 Summary \r\n\r\n 13.Distributed Transactions (38 pages) \r\n\r\n 13.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 13.2 Flat and nested distributed transactions \r\n\r\n 13.3 Atomic commit protocols \r\n\r\n 13.4 Concurrency control in distributed transactions \r\n\r\n 13.5 Distributed deadlocks \r\n\r\n 13.6 Transaction recovery \r\n\r\n 13.7 Summary \r\n\r\n 14.Replication (54 pages) \r\n\r\n 14.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 14.2 System model and group communication \r\n\r\n 14.3 Fault-tolerant services \r\n\r\n 14.4 Highly available services \r\n\r\n 14.5 Transactions with replicated data \r\n\r\n 14.6 Summary \r\n\r\n 15.Distributed Multimedia Systems (28 pages) \r\n\r\n 15.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 15.2 Characteristics of multimedia data \r\n\r\n 15.3 Quality of service management \r\n\r\n 15.4 Resource management \r\n\r\n 15.5 Stream adaptation \r\n\r\n 15.6 Case study: the Tiger video file server \r\n\r\n 15.7 Summary \r\n\r\n 16.Distributed Shared Memory (34 pages) \r\n\r\n 16.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 16.2 Design and implementation issues \r\n\r\n 16.3 Sequential consistency and Ivy \r\n\r\n 16.4 Release consistency and Munin \r\n\r\n 16.5 Other consistency models \r\n\r\n 16.6 Summary \r\n\r\n 17.Corba Case Study (30 pages) \r\n\r\n 17.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 17.2 CORBA RMI \r\n\r\n 17.3 CORBA services \r\n\r\n 17.4 Summary \r\n\r\n 18.Mach Case Study (24 pages) \r\n\r\n 18.1 Introduction \r\n\r\n 18.2 Ports, naming and protection \r\n\r\n 18.3 Tasks and threads \r\n\r\n 18.4 Communication model \r\n\r\n 18.5 Communication implementation \r\n\r\n 18.6 Memory management \r\n\r\n 18.7 Summary \r\n
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George Coulouris是伦敦大学Queen Mary学院的名誉退休教授, 同时是剑桥大学通信工程实验室的资深客座研究员, 他在那里领导一个有关动态可配置多媒体系统服务质量的研究项目, 最近他一直致力于计算机支持协同工作和应用. 分布式多媒体中间件和群件安全模型方面的研究工作.

Jean Dollimore在退体前是伦敦大学Queen Mary学院的高级研究员, 最近一直在从事有关计算机支持协同工作. 分布式多媒体中间件和群件安全模型方面的研究.

Tim Kindberg是惠普Palo Alto实验室的研究员, 目前正在研究用于移动计算的基于Web的基础设施, 目的是用Web资源扩展物理世界.