Reliable Distributed Systems

Technologies, Web Services, and Applications
2005. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-387-21509-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 668 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1460 g

Explains fault tolerance in clear terms, with concrete examples drawn from real-world settings 
Highly practical focus aimed at building "mission-critical" networked applications that remain secure

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birman, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Netzwerk-Hardware
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Grid-Computing & Paralleles Rechnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.- Web Technologies.- The World Wide Web.- Major Web Technologies.- Web Services.- Related Internet Technologies.- Platform Technologies.- 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.- Applications of Reliability Techniques.- Retrofitting Reliability into Complex Systems.- Software Architectures for Group Communication.- 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.

Über Autor(innen)

KENNETH P. BIRMAN is an ACM Fellow and a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, where his research focuses on reliable, secure, and scalable distributed computing systems. His work has been applied to the NYSE, the Swiss Stock Exchange, the US Navy's AEGIS warship, and the French air-traffic control system.