IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-642-01156-6_13.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Networks and Distributed Systems — Why, What, How and What’s Next

In: Simula Research Laboratory

Author

Listed:
  • Carsten Griwodz

    (Simula Research Laboratory)

  • Olav Lysne

Abstract

Networks today are an essential part of the communication among people and among and within machines. They are expected to enable immediate and unconstrained communication with anyone anywhere. While the technical ability for such communication is desirable, it is neither feasible nor possible. The two constraints that we cannot overcome in our efforts to reach this goal are perceived as speed limited: communication cannot be faster than the speed of light and the communication bandwidth is limited by the available spectrum. Within these constraints, however, there is still a huge potential for improvement. There is an increased demand for networks and distributed systems on smaller scales and this demand is also due to physical constraints. Ever since the miniaturisation of transistors reached the atomic scale, performance increase is no longer easily achieved and communication within and among chips is the established approach for achieving further improvements in computing power. Networks and distributed systems investigates the many promising options for achieving such improvements at various scales of communication.

Suggested Citation

  • Carsten Griwodz & Olav Lysne, 2010. "Networks and Distributed Systems — Why, What, How and What’s Next," Springer Books, in: Aslak Tveito & Are Magnus Bruaset & Olav Lysne (ed.), Simula Research Laboratory, chapter 13, pages 123-128, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-01156-6_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01156-6_13
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-01156-6_13. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.