Characteristics of a Distributed System
Distributed Systems is an upcoming area in computer science and has the ability to have a large impact on the many aspects in the medical, scientific, financial and commercial sector. The most commonly used definition for a distributed system is, a system comprised of geographically dispersed computing components interacting on a hardware or software level. The rise in interest for distributed computing can be attributed to two major factors. The first factor is the creation and advancements in local and wide area networks which allow for large amounts of data to be transmitted over great distances in a short period of time. The second factor is the new craze of the Internet of Things (IoT), where nearly every physical device manufacture having some sort of internet connectivity allowing for the possibility of tens of billions of devices that are able to interact. This large network of interconnected devices can be Continue reading