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Communication Overhead Reduction

Definition

Communication overhead reduction refers to methods that decrease the amount of non-essential data exchanged between parts of a system. This involves optimizing data transmission protocols and system architectures to minimize the bandwidth, processing power, and latency consumed by coordination messages. In distributed systems, this optimization is critical for improving efficiency, scalability, and overall performance by allowing more resources to be dedicated to productive work rather than administrative exchanges. Techniques often include data compression, batch processing, and efficient routing algorithms.