Download or read book Concurrency Control and Reliability in Distributed Systems written by Bharat K. Bhargava and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major objective of a distributed system is to provide low coast availability of the resources of the system by localizing access and providing insulation against failures of individual components. Since many users can be concurrently accessing the system, it is essential that a distributed system also provide a high degree of concurrency. Research into algorithms has been focused on concurrency, consistency, failure detection, management of replicated copy, and commitment and termination of transactions. This book is a compilation of a subset of research contributions in the area of concurrency control and reliability in distributed systems, with brief explorations of interesting areas, including theoretical and experimental efforts.