Intended as a textbook for undergraduate students of computer science, computer science and engineering, and information technology for a course on distributed systems/operating systems, this up-to-date text provides a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles and technologies pertinent to the design and construction of the distributed systems. Beginning with an introduction to the subject, the book discusses the techniques of software and network architectures and presents the issues pertaining to the handling and accessing of resources. There is also a focuses on major application areas. Finally, the book provides examples that explain the concepts discussed. This book will be useful to postgraduate students of computer science, computer science and engineering, and information technology, as well as to postgraduate students of computer applications. The book can also be used by software engineers, programmers, analysts, scientists and researchers. New to this edition: This second edition highlights some of the latest distributed system technologies. It includes discussions of cloud computing; social networks; and big data.In addition, it presents current key software tools, viz. BitTorrent, Amazon Dynamo, Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Apache Server, Apache Zookeeper, Google BigTable and others. Key features: * Provides an introduction to the Internet, web services and network technologies, viz. WAN, LAN and MAN.* Discusses software development tools, such as PVM, MPI, DCE, CORBA and the Globus toolkit.* Provides discussions of network protocol suites - TCP/IP, SMTP and HTTP.* Deals with grid computing, wireless computing and client-server model.* Provides coverage of NFS, Coda, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Amoeba, Chorus, Mach, Windows NT and Orbix technologies.* Emphasises programming languages, such as Ada, C and Java.
