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Ambient Networks
Wiley 2007; US$ 145.00Ambient Networks defines a new kind of network architecture, which embeds support for co operation and competition between diverse network types within a common control layer. This unified networking concept can adapt to the heterogeneous environments of different radio technologies and service and network environments. Special focus is placed... more...
An Atlas of Edge-Reversal Dynamics
CRC Press 2000; US$ 149.95This resource offers an in-depth account of the graph dynamics system SER (Scheduling by Edge Reversal), a powerful distributed mechanism for scheduling agents in a computer system. more...
Autonomics Development
Springer 2010; US$ 64.99Distributed applications are difficult to write as programmers need to adhere to specific distributed systems programming conventions and frameworks, which makes distributed systems development complex and error prone and ties the resultant application to the distributed system because the application's code is tangled with the crosscutting concern... more...
Blueprints for High Availability
Wiley 2003; US$ 52.95Expert techniques for designing your system to achieve maximum availability and predictable downtime With your company's reputation and profits at stake, downtime on your 24/7 web site is not an option, nor is poor application performance. Now in its second edition, this authoritative book provides you with the design blueprints to maximize your system... more...
Communication and Agreement Abstractions for Fault-Tolerant Asynchronous Distributed Systems
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2010; US$ 55.00Understanding distributed computing is not an easy task. This is due to the many facets of uncertainty one has to cope with and master in order to produce correct distributed software. Considering the uncertainty created by asynchrony and process crash failures in the context of message-passing systems, the book focuses on the main abstractions that... more...
Content Distribution Networks
Wiley 2003; US$ 74.50Content distribution networks (CDNs) are the most promising new techniques for coping with the huge and swiftly growing volume of Internet traffic. In essence, CDNs are groups of proxy-servers located at strategic points around the Internet and arranged so as to ensure that a download request can always be handled from the nearest server. In this,... more...
The Definitive Guide to Terracotta
Springer 2008; US$ 44.99Terracotta CTO Ari Zilka and his team deliver the definitive guide on Terracotta Java application infrastructure, as well as user secrets, recipes, and prepackaged frameworks. more...
The Definitive Guide to the C&A Transformation Process
IT Governance Publishing 2009; US$ 69.95The Definitive Guide to the C&A Transformation is the first comprehensive manual that sets out to explain the current standards and best practices. The book provides all the information needed to recognize, implement and manage the relevant authorization requirements, and therefore to achieve compliance with federal, local and agency laws... more...
Delivering Utility Computing
Wiley 2006; US$ 125.00Learn how to design and deploy utility computing systems to save costs and improve the value that IT delivers. The economic downturn that occurred after the .com boom and bust has put the cost of IT in the spotlight. By following the principles of utility computing, also known as on-demand computing, real-time infrastructure, or adaptive enterprise,... more...









