Open Distributed Systems
Published on 1. January 1996
Book
Hardback
386 pages
978-0-89006-839-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book's comprehensive coverage of distributed systems from the ODP perspective describes how a multimedia conferencing system can be built as a distributed application, how management can be modeled as a distributed application, and how a distributed file system can be built as an example of a user application.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Norwood
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Dimensions
Height: 152 mm
Width: 229 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-89006-839-7 (9780890068397)
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Person
John Crowcroft is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at University College London, England. He holds a B.A. in physics from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in computing from UCL.
Content
What are Open Distributed Systems? Modules, Communication, and Concurrency. Real Time and Reliable Systems. Security. Languages and Formal Methods. Communications Support. Open Distributed Systems Application Support. ODP Modeling of Multimedia Conferencing. Application to Network Management. Distributed File Systems. Load Balancing.