Distributed Systems

The book contains: Concept of Characterization of Distributed Systems: Introduction Examples of Distributed systems Resource sharing and web challenges. System Models: Introduction Architectural and Fundamental models. Time and Global States: Introduction Clocks Events and Process states Synchronizing physical clocks Logical time and Logical clocks Global states Distributed Debugging. Coordination and Agreement: Introduction Distributed mutual exclusion Elections Multicast Communication Consensus and Related problems. Inter Process Communication: Introduction the API for the internet protocols External Data Representation and Marshalling Client-Server Communication Group Communication Case Study: IPC in UNIX. Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation: Introduction Communication between Distributed Objects Remote Procedure Call Events and Notifications Case study-Java RMI.