Design Issue and Challenger
Design Issue and Challenger
The document outlines design issues and challenges in distributed computing. Here’s a summary of the key points:
System Challenges
1. Communication: Efficient mechanisms like RPC, ROI, and message-oriented vs. stream-oriented communication.
2. Processes: Management of threads, code migration, and mobile agents.
3. Naming: Robust schemes for transparent and scalable resource identification.
4. Synchronization: Coordination for tasks like mutual exclusion and leader election.
5. Data Storage/Access: Fast, scalable access and efficient data management.
6. Consistency/Replication: Ensuring data reliability and scalability via replication.
7. Fault Tolerance: Maintaining operation despite failures.
8. Security: Secure communication, access control, and cryptography.
9. API/Transparency: Simplifying user interfaces and hiding implementation details.
10. Scalability/Modularity: Efficiently distributing resources and workloads.
Algorithmic Challenges
• Execution models like interleaving/partial orders.
• Distributed graph and routing algorithms.
• Synchronization and global state management.
• Group communication and ordered message delivery.
• Debugging tools for concurrent operations.
• Reliable systems with consensus algorithms and fault recovery.
Applications and Emerging Challenges
• Mobile Systems: Battery, range, and interference issues.
• Sensor Networks: Managing large-scale, low-cost sensors.
• Ubiquitous Computing: Smart environments and embedded systems.
• Peer-to-Peer Computing: Equal, non-hierarchical processing.
• Publish-Subscribe Systems: Efficient content delivery and filtering.
• Distributed Data Mining: Pattern detection in vast datasets.
• Grid Computing: Scheduling, quality guarantees, and security.
• Distributed Security: Addressing confidentiality, authentication, and availability.