Distributed System Design

DOI10.1201/9781315141411MaRDI QIDQ4224195zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jie Wu

Publication date 10 January 1999

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315141411

zbMATH Keywords

distributed programmingdistributed systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to computer science (68-01) Network design and communication in computer systems (68M10) Decentralized systems (93A14)

Review text

The book in review makes itself sympathetic to the reader from the first page. You feel yourself like a good acquaintance of the author taking part in the subject dealt with. Especially to emphasize is not only the well-advised order of the topics but also the excellent way of handling them. First of all the intentions of the author are stated. The scope of the topic ``distributed systems is delimited, the needed tools like distributed programming are discussed and the different possible approaches to modelling distributed systems are explained. After this the author turns his attention to the problematics concerning mutual exclusion and deadlocks as well as distributed routing algorithms. A further important topic deals with reliability, safety, security and fault tolerance. Both static and dynamic load distribution are treated. Another chapter occupies itself with distributed data management. The book ends with some examples of distributed systems like distributed operating systems or distributed file systems and an outlook for the future development. Some other topics like distributed real-time systems have not been treated. At the end of each chapter a very extensive bibliography (on the average more than 50 sources in each case!) has been added. Furthermore many suggestions of problems to be solved by the reader are given. The textbook treats the problems involved in the discussed subject thoroughly, and the explanations are well to comprehend. It ranges with the best publications on distributed systems design and seems to be well suited for graduate students as well as for experts on this field. It can be emphatically recommended to them by the reviewer.

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