Table of Contents

Overview of Distributed Network Systems.- Modelling for Distributed Network Systems: The Client-Server Model.- Communication Paradigms for Distributed Network Systems.- Internetworking.- Interprocess Communication Using Message Passing.- TCP/UDP Communication in Java.- Interprocess Communication Using RPC.- Group Communications.- Reliability and Replication Techniques.- Security.- A Reactive System Architecture for Fault-Tolerant Computing.- Web-Based Databases.- Mobile Computing.- Distributed Network Systems: Case Studies.- Distributed Network Systems: Current Development.