Textbooks and Lecture Notes

Required Textbook:

One book is required for this course and is available for purchase from the University Bookstore.

• Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen, Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-088893-1, 2002.

References:

• G. Colouris, J. Dollimore, and T. Kindberg, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2001.

• J. Kurose and K. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Addison-Wesley, 2001.

• R. Stevens, Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, Prentice-Hall.

• Links to web pages on various topics including socket programming, RPC, and threads.

• The man pages

Lecture Notes:

Lecture overheads will be available (hopefully) before each lecture through the CS402 web site.