Manuels de cours (disponible en ligne):
Coulouris, G., J. Dollimore et T. Kindberg. Distributed Systems – Concepts and Designs, 5th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2012. (CKDB)
Tanenbaum, A., van Steen, M. Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms. Prentice Hall International, 2001. (TS)