Textbook

There is NO REQUIRED textbook for the class. Readings from the open technical literature are provided in PDF form (see the class Calendar for link to these papers).

Suggested Reference Books.

If you would like a reference book for the class, here are a number of suggestions.

Tanenbaum - First Edition

Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (first edition)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen

Tanenbaum - Second Edition

Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (second edition)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen

Silberschatz Book Cover

Operating System Concepts (seventh edition)
Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne