Sinha P.K. Distributed operating systems: Concepts and Design

IEEE Press, 1997, 743 pages, ISBN 0-7803-1119-1The book is designed to provide a clear description of the fundamental concepts and design principles that underlie distributed operating systems. It does not concentrate on any particular distributed operating system or hardware. Instead, it discusses, in a general setting, the fundamental concepts and design principles that are applicable to a variety of distributed operating systems. However, case studies are included in the text to relate the discussed concepts with real distributed operating systems.The material in the book has been drawn largely from the research literature in the field. Of the vast amount of research literature available in this field, effort was made to select and give more emphasis to those concepts that are of practical value in real systems, rather than those that are only of theoretical interest.Each chapter contains carefully designed exercises that are meant to test the understanding of the materials in the text and to stimulate investigation. An extensive set of references and a list of selected pointers to on-line bibliographies on the Internet have been provided at the end of each chapter to allow interested readers to explore more advanced materials dealing with finer details about each chapter's topics.Fundamentals
Computer Networks
Message Passing
Remote Procedure Calls
Distributed Shared Memory
Synchronization
Resource Management
Process Management
Distributed File Systems
Naming
Security
Case Studies