by
George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg and Gordon Blair
Fifth Edition, published by Addison Wesley, May 2011
ISBN 0-13-214301-1
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New to the fifth edition
New chapters:
Indirect Communication: Covering group communication, publish-subscribe and case studies on JavaSpaces, JMS, WebSphere and Message Queues.
Distributed Objects and Components: Covering component-based middleware and case studies on Enterprise JavaBeans, Fractal and CORBA.
Designing Distributed Systems: Devoted to a major new case study on the Google infrastructure.
Topics added to other chapters: Cloud computing, network virtualization, operating system virtualization, message passing interface, unstructured peer-to-peer, tuple spaces, loose coupling in relation to web services.
Other new case studies: Skype, Gnutella, TOTA, L2imbo, BitTorrent, End System Multicast.
More details about these and other changes are in the Preface.