Pre-Assessment: Distributed Systems III

send information to all network devices in each connection..

device that analyzes the contents of data packets transmitted within a network or to another network

Larger network that usually spans several buildings in the same city or town

_________ sends a single message from one process to several members of a group of process.

Which of the following occurs when a communication channel fails to do its intended function?

Scheduling is an operating system function that assigns CPU time to processes. _________ can be in three states: running, ready or blocked.

The scheduler moves processes from the waiting to the ready state and places them in the ready queue. Each process in the queue will have a unique process ID and will be assigned a priority. The latter value can change to ensure that processes do not remain in the _________ state indefinitely

_______ splits a process into multiple parallel units of execution

________ operating systems are capable of handling threads of processes by providing logical execution pathways