Distributed Computing: Fundamentals, Simulations, and Advanced Topics, 2nd Edition

PART I: FUNDAMENTALS.

2. Basic Algorithms in Message-Passing Systems.

3. Leader Election in Rings.

4. Mutual Exclusion in Shared Memory.

5. Fault-Tolerant Consensus.

6. Causality and Time.

PART II: SIMULATIONS.

7. A Formal Model for Simulations.

8. Broadcast and Multicast.

9. Distributed Shared Memory.

10. Fault-Tolerant Simulations of Read/Write Objects.

11. Simulating Synchrony.

12. Improving the Fault Tolerance of Algorithms.

13. Fault-Tolerant Clock Synchronization.

PART III: ADVANCED TOPICS.

14. Randomization.

15. Wait-Free Simulations of Arbitrary Objects.

16. Problems Solvable in Asynchronous Systems.

17. Solving Consensus in Eventually Stable Systems.

References.

Index.