Title Distributed computing : fundamentals, simulations, and advanced topics / Hagit Attiya and Jennifer Welch

Edition Second edition Published New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, 2004

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	004.36 Att/Dcf 2004		AVAILABLE

Description xv, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Wiley series on parallel and distributed computing Wiley series on parallel and distributed computing. Contents 1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Fundamentals -- 2. Basic Algorithms in Message-Passing Systems -- 3. Leader Election in Rings -- 4. Mutual Exclusion in Shared Memory -- 5. Fault-Tolerant Consensus -- 6. Causality and Time -- Pt. II. Simulations -- 7. A Formal Model for Simulations -- 8. Broadcast and Multicast -- 9. Distributed Shared Memory -- 10. Fault-Tolerant Simulations of Read/Write Objects -- 11. Simulating Synchrony -- 12. Improving the Fault Tolerance of Algorithms -- 13. Fault-Tolerant Clock Synchronization -- Pt. III. Advanced Topics -- 14. Randomization -- 15. Wait-Free Simulations of Arbitrary Objects -- 16. Problems Solvable in Asynchronous Systems -- 17. Solving Consensus in Eventually Stable Systems Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing. Author Welch, Jennifer. LC no. 2004040728 ISBN 0471453242 cloth

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