Colette Cauvin was formerly Professor of Geography at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France. Francisco Escobar is Professor of Geography at the University of Alcala, Spain. Aziz Serradj is Lecturer of Geography at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France.

• Foreword 9Chapter 1. Introduction 13Serge HADDAD, Fabrice KORDON, Laurent PAUTET and LaurePETRUCCIFIRST PART. LARGE SCALE PEER-TO-PEER DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS19Chapter 2. Introduction to Large-Scale Peer-to-PeerDistributed Systems 21Fabrice KORDONChapter 3. Design Principles of Large-Scale DistributedSystem 33Xavier BONNAIRE and Pierre SENSChapter 4. Peer-to-Peer Storage 59Olivier MARIN, Sébastien MONNET and GaëlTHOMASChapter 5. Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Game Applications81Sébastien MONNET and Gaël THOMASSECOND PART. DISTRIBUTED, EMBEDDED AND REAL-TIME SYSTEMS105Chapter 6. Introduction to Distributed Embedded and Real-timeSystems 107Laurent PAUTETChapter 7. Scheduling in Distributed Real-Time Systems117Emmanuel GROLLEAU, Michaël RICHARD, and PascalRICHARDChapter 8. Software Engineering for Adaptative EmbeddedSystems 159Etienne BORDEChapter 9. The Design of Aerospace Systems 191Maxime PERROTIN, Julien DELANGE, and JérômeHUGUESTHIRD PART. SECURITY IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS 229Chapter 10. Introduction to Security Issues in DistributedSystems 231Laure PETRUCCIChapter 11. Practical Security in Distributed Systems237Benoît BERTHOLON, Christophe CÉRIN, Camille COTI,Jean-Christophe DUBACQ, and Sébastien VARRETTEChapter 12. Enforcing Security with Cryptography301Sami HARARI and Laurent POINSOTList of Authors 331Index 333

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