Research Catalog
Open distributed systems
- Title
- Open distributed systems / Jon Crowcroft.
- Author
- Crowcroft, Jon.
- Publication
- Boston : Artech House, [1995], ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | QA76.9.D5 C79 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 386 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Electronic data processing > Distributed processing
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-368) and index.
- Contents
- 1. What are open distributed systems and what are they for? -- 2. Modules, communication and concurrency -- 3. Real time and reliable systems -- 4. The nature of security / Jon Crowcroft and Robert Cole -- 5. Languages and formal methods / Jon Crowcroft and Mark d'Inverno -- 6. Communications support / Jon Crowcroft and Graham Knight -- 7. CORBA - An industrial approach to open distributed computing / Nigel Edwards -- 8. Modelling and implementing distributed multimedia conferencing / Jon Crowcroft, Mark Handley and Ian Wakeman -- 9. Applications to network management / Jon Crowcroft and David Lewis -- 10. Distributed file systems / Jon Crowcroft and Nermeen Ismail -- 11. Load balancing / Jon Crowcroft and S. Hailes -- 12. Future lessons and challenges.
- ISBN
- 0890068399 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95048909
- OCLC
- 33666929
- ocm33666929
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries