Superseded by the Fifth Edition, first published in May 2011

The reference list from the book with links to online texts where available.

Detailed teaching slides for the majority of chapters.

Powerpoint slides of the figures in the book (also in .pdf).

Presentation points.

Solutions to all exercises (password-protected).

Powerpoint slides of exercises.

A set of laboratory projects.

The full contents list from the book. 
The text of the preface to the book.
Photo and short biographies of the authors.
A list of known corrections to the book.
Updated 14 Apr. 2003.

Links to 14 courses using the book (updated Oct 2002)

Source code for the programs in the book.

Other supplementary material (updated May 2003).

History of changes to this web site.
Updated 21 May. 2003.


Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design
Edition 3 

by George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg

ISBN 0201-619-180. Addison-Wesley, ©Pearson Education 2001


Translations: Spanish and German editions have been published.



Page created:5 July 2000; Last updated: 2 March 2002 ©George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg 2000