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Distributed Computing

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Distributed computing refers to the paradigm of not having a central computing node in a sensor network. Distributed computing uses parallel computations over a multiple processing units, connected by a communications network. Distributed computing alleviates the need for having an extremely powerful central computing node in a network, sacrificing performance to obtain robustness to partial failure of the network both in terms of individual node failures as well as failure on the communication links.

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(2009). Distributed Computing. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_713

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