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John Wiley Elements Of Distributed Computing by VIjay K Garg
This book discusses fundamental concepts in distributed computing systems such as time, state, simultaneity, order, knowledge, failure, and agreement in distributed systems. The emphasis of the book is on developing general mechanisms that can be applied to a variety of problems. Examples are clocks, locks, cameras, sensors, controllers, slicers and synchronizers. The examples have been carefully chosen so that they are fundamental and yet useful in practical contexts. The book is based on an asynchronous model of distributed computing. This means it does not deal with shared memory models or network computing with bounded delays on messages. This model has been widely used in academia and industry, yet there are no books available with this treatment. Available books cover shared memory and synchronous distributed systems.