Andrew Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen detail the principles, advanced concepts, and technologies of distributed systems, such as communication, replication, fault tolerance, and security.

This book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate-level university courses, or for use by professionals, and systematically presents how distributed systems are designed and practically implemented.

Written in the excellent style of Tanenbaum's other books, the material also features a wide variety of real-world examples and case studies, such as NFS v4, COBRA, DCOM, Jini, and the World Wide Web.