Practical Distributed Processing

At last - a comprehensive and navigable textbook on a subject of huge interest to computer professionals. Many practitioners make limited use of the advantages distributed processing theory can give them. This book show you how to design a complete distributed system.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Brooke, Phillip J
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published London Springer Nature 2007
Springer
Springer London, Limited
Springer London
Edition1
SeriesUndergraduate Topics in Computer Science
Subjects
Computer networks
Computer Science
Data processing Computer science
Distributed processing
Electronic data processing
Electronic data processing > Distributed processing
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
Theory of Computation
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ISBN184628841X
9781846288418
9781846288401
1846288401
ISSN1863-7310
DOI10.1007/978-1-84628-841-8

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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 What is Distributed Processing? -- 2 Concepts of Concurrency -- 3 Models of Concurrency -- 4 Concurrency in Operating Systems -- 5 Interprocess Communication -- 6 Protocols -- 7 Security -- 8 Languages and Distributed Processing -- 9 Building Distributed Systems -- 10 Case Study: A Networked Game -- 11 The End -- A Exercises: Hints and Comments -- B About the Example Code -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index