1.7 Reading list

• Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design. George F. Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg, Addison-Wesley, Fourth edition, 2005. This is the course textbook, and I will occasionally be recommending readings from it. The notes are based on the third edition, 2001, although updates to reflect the fourth edition are being made and this is the most current version.
• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, J. Kurose and K. Ross, Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-47711-4. The course textbook from Multimedia Communications Technology, full of useful and overlapping material.
• Operating System Concepts Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin and Greg Gagne, John Wiley & Sons, Sixth edition. If you already have this book from the Operating Systems course, the material on distributed systems is very relevant.