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and ease of understanding. The book will be particularly valuable to the
academic community and the computer industry at large. Writing such a
comprehensive book has been a Herculean task and there is a deep sense of
satisfaction in knowing that we were able complete it and perform this service
to the community.
Description, approach, and features
The book will focus on the fundamental principles and models underlying all
aspects of distributed computing. It will address the principles underlying the
theory, algorithms, and systems aspects of distributed computing. The manner
of presentation of the algorithms is very clear, explaining the main ideas and
the intuition with figures and simple explanations rather than getting entangled
in intimidating notations and lengthy and hard-to-follow rigorous proofs of
the algorithms. The selection of chapter themes is broad and comprehensive,
and the book covers all important topics in depth. The selection of algorithms
within each chapter has been done carefully to elucidate new and important
techniques of algorithm design. Although the book focuses on foundational
aspects and algorithms for distributed computing, it thoroughly addresses all
practical systems-like problems (e.g., mutual exclusion, deadlock detection,
termination detection, failure recovery, authentication, global state and time,
etc.) by presenting the theory behind and algorithms for such problems. The
book is written keeping in mind the impact of emerging topics such as
peer-to-peer computing and network security on the foundational aspects of
distributed computing.
Each chapter contains figures, examples, exercises, a summary, and
references.
Readership
This book is aimed as a textbook for the following:
• Graduate students and Senior level undergraduate students in computer
science and computer engineering.
• Graduate students in electrical engineering and mathematics. As wireless
networks, peer-to-peer networks, and mobile computing continue to grow
in importance, an increasing number of students from electrical engineering
departments will also find this book necessary.
• Practitioners, systems designers/programmers, and consultants in industry
and research laboratories will find the book a very useful reference because
it contains state-of-the-art algorithms and principles to address various
design issues in distributed systems, as well as the latest references.
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