Characterization of Distributed Systems -- System Models -- Networking and Internetworking -- Interprocess Communication -- Distributed Object and Remote Invocation -- Operating System Support -- Security -- Distributed File Systems -- Name Services -- Time and Global States -- Coordination and Agreement -- Transactions and Concurrency Control -- Distributed Transactions -- Replication -- Distributed Multimedia Systems -- Distributed Shared Memory -- Corba Case Study -- Mach Case Study

1. Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing
2. Distributed operating systems (Computers)
3. Kindberg
4. Tim