Communications Architecture for Distributed Systems
Communications Architecture for Distributed Systems
Computer Networks and Their Protocols
Computer Networks and Their Protocols
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The clear advantages inherent in dynamic sharing of resources has accelerated the development of distributed processing. The number of networks which provide resource sharing have increased steadily from the early years of ARPA network. As the number of users sharing the resources increases, there is a potential danger for degradation of services, if the demand for the resources is greater than the available resources. The maximum traffic that can be carried by a network depends on the finite network resources such as link bandwidth and storage buffers. An uncontrolled flow of traffic results in service degradation and deadlock if the traffic allowed into the network exceeds the capacity of the network.