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Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Practice, 1/e

Doreen L. Galli, Ph.D

Published August, 1999 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

Copyright 2000, 464 pp.
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ISBN 0-13-079843-6


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Summary

For one-semester, fourth-year undergraduate courses in Parallel Computing, Distributed Operating Systems, and for graduate curriculum in the department of computer science. This text examines the concepts, theory, and practice in distributed operating systems. A two-part approach presents the basic foundation for distributed computing and then expands on these topics to cover advanced distributed operating systems. It describes in detail every major aspect of the topics, and includes relevant examples of real operating systems to reinforce concepts and illustrate decisions that must be made by distributed system designers.

Features


Detail Boxes—Contain information such as complex algorithms and more in-depth examples.

  • Promotes further understanding and provides flexibility in the learning process and use of the text.
Over 150 figures and tables.
  • Illustrates key concepts without interrupting flow of the text.
Case study of Windows 2000.
  • Demonstrates real-life commercial solutions to the examination of a real-life operating system.
Project-oriented exercises—Builds upon concepts covered in earlier chapters.
  • Requires students to utilize and apply knowledge from the text within a programming exercise so that they can gain “hands-on" experience.
Reference pointers to relevant sources—Includes “core” web and ftp sites; overview sources for further in-depth study; and research papers.
  • Gives interested students a starting point to learn more about the topic.
Sample distributed application program.
  • Shows students key distributing programming concepts so that they can have an in-depth example of many of the practical concepts.
Real-life examples—E.g., CORBA; DCOM; NFS; LDAP; and X.500.
  • Reinforces the demonstration of real-life solutions to various aspects of distributed computing.
Chapter summaries.
  • Provides students with a review of material, enabling them to check their understanding of concepts already covered—and that will be expanded upon in later chapters.


Table of Contents
    1. Introduction to Distributed Systems.

      What is an Operating System? What is a Distributed System? What is a Real-Time System? What is a Parallel System? Sample Distributed Application. Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    2. The Kernel.

      Kernel Types. Processes and Threads. Process Management. Process Scheduling. Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    3. Interprocess Communication.

      Selection Factors. Message Passing. Pipes. Sockets. Remote Procedure Calls. Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    4. Memory Management.

      Review of Centralized Memory Management. Simple Memory Model. Shared Memory Model. Distributed Shared Memory. Memory Migration. Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    5. Concurrency Control.

      Mutual Exclusion and Critical Regions. Semaphores. Monitors. Locks. Software Lock Control. Token-Passing Mutual Exclusion. Deadlocks. Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    6. Object-Based Operating Systems.

      Introduction to Objects. The Clouds Object Approach. Chorus V3 and COOL v2. Amoeba. Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). CORBA Overview. Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    7. Distributed Process Management.

      Distributed Scheduling Algorithm Choices. Scheduling Algorithm Approaches. Coordinator Elections. Orphan Processes. Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    8. Distributed File Systems.

      Distributed Name Service. Distributed File Service. Distributed Directory Service. NFS. X.500. Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    9. Transaction Management & Consistency Models.

      Transaction Management Motivation. ACID Properties of a Transaction. Consistency Models. Two-Phase Commit Protocol. Nested Transactions. Implementation Issues for Transactions. Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    10. Distributed Synchronization.

      Introduction to Global Time. Physical Clocks. Network Time Protocol (NTP). Logical Clocks. Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    11. Distributed Security.

      Crytography and Digital Signatures. Authentication. Access Control (Firewalls). Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    12. CASE STUDY: Windows 2000.

      Overview: Windows 2000 Design. Kernel Mode Overview. Plug and Play. NT Files System in Windows 2000 (NTFS). Active Directory. Microsoft Management Console (MMC). Cluster Service. Windows 2000 Security. HYDRA-A Thin Client. Summary. References for Further Study. Exercises.

    Appendix A. Surgical Scheduling Program.

      Documentation Overview. Design Documentation. Functional Descriptions. Data Dictionary. User Documentation. Client Source Code. Server Source Code. Common Source Code. File Initialization Source Code: write_ca.c.

    List of Acronyms.
    Glossary of Terms.
    Bibliography.
    Index.

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