Location of Software in Distributed Computing Systems

Abstract

The planning and design of computer networks give rise to many location problems. These may be split into those primarily concerned with placement of hardware and those with software. Here, a broad overview of location of software components (programs and data files) is given, together with a brief appraisal of the state-of-the-art for various problems.

Keywords:

• communications
• computers
• location
• networks
• software