Distributed Systems, 4/E: Concepts And Design Distributed Systems, 4/e: Concepts and Design Book Description Broad and up-to-date coverage of the principles and practice in this fast moving area. Includes the key issues in the debate between components and web services as the way forward for industry. Characterization of distributed systems System models Networking and internetworking Interprocess communication Distributed objects and remote invocation Operating system support Security Distributed file systems Name services Peer-to-peer systems Time and global states Coordination and agreement Transactions and concurrency control Distributed transactions Replication Mobile and ubiquitous computing Distributed multimedia systems Distributed shared memory Web services CORBA case study