Distributed Systems ─ An Algorithmic Approach

Its comprehensive coverage and presentation of difficult theoretical topics in a concise and accessible style made the first edition a bestseller. Since its publication however, there have been significant new developments in the field of distributed systems, including social networks, cloud computing, mobile ad-hoc networks, large-scale systems, and new algorithms for problem solving in distributed environments. This updated edition includes updated coverage of these new and relevant topics along with new exercises in several chapters. A solutions manual is also available upon qualified course adoption.

Sukumar Ghosh has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA since 1995. He earned his Ph.D in computer science and engineering from Calcutta University, India in 1971, and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Dortmund, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow. His current research interests are in distributed systems, with a special emphasis on dynamic distributed systems; fault-tolerant, self-stabilizing, and autonomic distributed systems; and peer-to-peer networks. He has published over 100 research papers and 5 book chapters on these topics, and has supervised 16 Ph.D students.