Distributed Network Systems: From Concepts To Implementations (Network Theory And Applications, 15)

Both authors have taught the course of ?istributed Systems?for many years in the respective schools. During the teaching, we feel strongly that ?istributed systems?have evolved from traditional ?AN?based distributed systems towards ?nternet based?systems. Although there exist many excellent textbooks on this topic, because of the fast development of distributed systems and network programming/protocols, we have difficulty in finding an appropriate textbook for the course of ?istributed systems?with orientation to the requirement of the undergraduate level study for today's distributed technology. Specifically, from - to-date concepts, algorithms, and models to implementations for both distributed system designs and application programming. Thus the philosophy behind this book is to integrate the concepts, algorithm designs and implementations of distributed systems based on network programming. After using several materials of other textbooks and research books, we found that many text