Distributed systems : principles and paradigms / Andrew S. Tanenbaum & Maarten Van Steen.

Table of Content
1 Introduction
1.1 DEFINITION OF A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
1.2 GOALS1.
1.3 TYPES OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, etc.

2 ARCHITECTURES
2.1 ARCHITECTURAL STYLES
2.2 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES
2.3 ARCHITECTURES VERSUS MIDDLEWARE, etc.

3 PROCESSES
3.1 THREADS
3.2 VIRTUALIZATION
3.3 CLIENTS
3.4 SERVERS, etc.

4 COMMUNICATION
4.1 FUNDAMENTALS
4.2 REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL
4.3 MESSAGE ORIENTED COMMUNICATION, etc.

5 NAMING
5.1 NAME, IDENTIFIERS, AND ADDRESSES
5.2 FLAT NAMING
5.3 STRUCTURED NAMING, etc.

6 SYNCHRONIZATION
6.1 CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION
6.2 LOGICAL CLOCKS
6.3 MUTUAL EXCLUSION, etc.

7 CONSISTENCY AND REPLICATION
7.1 INTRODUCTION
7.2 DATA-CENTRIC CONSISTENCY MODELS
7.3 CLIENT-CENTRIC CONSISTENCY MODELS, etc.

8 FAULT TOLERANCE
8.1 INTRODUCTION TO FAULT TOLERANCE
8.2 PROCESS RESILIENCE
8.3 RELIABLE CILENT-SERVER COMMUNICATION, etc.

9 SECURITY
9.1 INTRODUCTION TO SECURITY
9.2 SECURE CHANNELS
9.3 ACCESS CONTROL
9.4 SECURITY MANAGEMENT
9.5 SUMMARY

10 DISTRIBUTED OBJECT-BASE SYSTEMS
10.1 ARCHITECTURE
10.2 PROCESSES
10.3 COMMUNICATION
10.4 NAMING, etc.

11 DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM
11.1 ARCHITECTURE
11.2 PROCESSES
11.3 COMMUNICATION
11.4 NAMING,etc.

12 DISTRIBUTED WEB-BASED SYSTEMS
12.1 ARCHITECTURE
12.2 PROCESSES
12.3 COMMUNICATION
12.4 NAMING,etc.

13 DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION-BASED SYSTEMS
13.1 INTRODUCTION TO COORDINATION MODELS
13.2 ARCHITECTURES
13.3 PROCESSES
13.4 COMMUNICATION
13.5 NAMING,etc.

14 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
14.1 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
14.2 ALPHABETICAL BIBLOGRAPHY

Include Index : p. 669-686