Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming

by Christian Cachin, Rachid Guerraoui, Luis Rodrigues

In modern computing a program is usually distributed among several processes. The fundamental challenge when developing reliable and secure distributed programs is to support the cooperation of processes required to execute a common task, even when some of these processes fail. Failures may range from crashes to adversarial attacks by malicious processes. Cachin, Guerraoui, and Rodrigues present an introductory description of fundamental distributed programming abstractions together with algorithms to implement them in distributed systems, where processes are subject to crashes and malicious attacks. The authors follow an incremental approach by first introducing basic abstractions in simple distributed environments, before moving to more sophisticated abstractions and more challenging environments. Each core chapter is devoted to one topic, covering reliable broadcast, shared memory, consensus, and extensions of consensus. For every topic, many exercises and their solutions enhance the understanding This book represents the second edition of "Introduction to Reliable Distributed Programming". Its scope has been extended to include security against malicious actions by non-cooperating processes. This important domain has become widely known under the name "Byzantine fault-tolerance".

Genres: Computer Science, Programming, Technology, Technical, Software, Architecture, Computers

386 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[David Calavera · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very nice introduction to the basic theoretical aspects of Distributed Systems.

[Stefan C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good theoretical state of the art. Moreover, even if not stated, a plethora of the algorithms have applications in the more novel domain of permissioned blockchians.

[Oleksandr · Rating 5 out of 5]

THE book to have if you want to know how various algorithms are implemented