Module 15 Network Structures.ppt

Module 15: Network Structures Background Topology Network Types Communication Communication Protocol Robustness Design Strategies A Distributed System Motivation Resource sharing sharing and printing files at remote sites processing information in a distributed database using remote specialized hardware devices Computation speedup – load sharing Reliability – detect and recover from site failure, function transfer, reintegrate failed site Communication – message passing Network-Operating Systems Users are aware of multiplicity of machines. Access to resources of various machines is done expl