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What is Client-Server Model

Chapter 50
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
A communicating way, where one hardware or software entity (server) has more functionalities than the other entity (the client), whereas the client is responsible to initiate and close the communication session towards the server. Usually the server provides services that the client can request from the server. Its alternative is the P2P model.
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Network-Based Intrusion Detection
Gábor Hosszú (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary) and Zoltán Czirkos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch050
Abstract
As an example of the application for non-conventional purposes a security system is presented in the article that utilizes just the network for protecting the operating system of the computers. The software maintains a database about the experienced intruding attempts. Its entities working on each computer share their experiments among each other on the peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay network created by self organizing on the Internet. In such a way the security of the participants is increased, and then they can take the necessary steps.
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Chapter 92
Industrial Web Portal for Remote Supervisory Control
A model with one entity in the network—the client—making a service request to another remote entity, a server.
Published in Chapter: Industrial Web Portal for Remote Supervisory Control; From: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
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Chapter 159
Policy-Based Management for Call Control
A communicating way, where one host has more functionality than the other. It differs from the P2P network (see below).
Published in Chapter: Policy-Based Management for Call Control; From: Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition
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Chapter 7
Learning Support System for Programming Language Python
A data processing model in which the server performs some processing in response to a request from a client and returns the result as a response to the client.
Published in Chapter: Learning Support System for Programming Language Python; From: Handbook of Research on Software for Gifted and Talented School Activities in K-12 Classrooms
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