What is Transparency in a Distributed System?

What is Transparency in a Distributed System?

Transparency in a distributed system can be defined as the hiding of the details of the distribution and the levels of complexity of a system from the users and designers. That will be an environment where multiple, geographically dispersed nodes will be integrated into one coherent environment from the point of view of the users....

Types of Transparency in Distributed Systems

Transparency in distributed systems can be categorized into several types, each addressing different aspects of system interactions and operations:...

Conclusion

Transparency is a basic property of distributed systems, which eases the interactions and the usage, as well as strengthens the dependability of the system. By masking the details of the distributed environment, transparency enables users and developers to work on the respective problems without being overwhelmed by the communication layer. Communicational, ac cess, migrational, concu rental, fa illure, rep licational, and persist ent forms of trans parency a re important for constructing high-quality, dependable, and intuitive distributed systems. This paper aims at describing the concept of transparency in current as well as future distributed system environments, as systems tend to get more complex over time....