Concurrency Control and Reliability in Distributed Systems

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.