1. 433-652: Distributed Systems Dr. Rajkumar Buyya Senior Lecturer and Director of MEDC Course Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering The University of Melbourne, Australia http://www.buyya.com

2. 2 Books and References Main Text Book: CDK: Couloris, G, Dollimore, J. and Kinberg, T, Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design, 4th Edition, Addison-Wesley, Pearson Education, UK, ISBN 0201-619-180. http://www.cdk3.net | http://www.cdk4.nethttp://www.cdk3.nethttp://www.cdk4.net Reference / Alternate Text Book: TM: Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten Van Steen, Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, Prentice Hall, Pearson Education, USA. ISBN: 0-13-088893-1, 2002. http://www.prenhall.com/tanenbaum/ http://www.prenhall.com/tanenbaum/ Programming Reference: M. L. Liu, Distributed Computing - Concepts and Application, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-321-21817-5, 2004. http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~mliu/book/ http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~mliu/book/ Research Articles:  To be supplied by the Lecturer at free of cost!

3. 3 Text Book OR 4 th edition published in June 2005. It has extra chapters: P2P, Grids, Web Services.

4. 4 Reference Book – Alternate Text Book

5. 5 Programming Reference