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We believe that a deeper study is needed in order
to address FBP security concerns in a cloud comput-
ing environment and how FBP can assist in solving
problems related to distributed coordination and asyn-
chrony. Distributed environments with asynchronous
message passing shows a completely different sce-
nario to developers, while some security vulnerabil-
ities will not be applicable anymore, several others
shall arise.
A deeper study of how granularity affects the FBP
under a distributed scenario is needed in order to sup-
port applications’ design. As exposed in Section 4,
granularity control interferes deeply on systems’ per-
formance. It is necessary to clarify where and when a
certain granularity level should be adopted, enabling
a more accurate distributed applications design.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported by the Research and De-
velopment Centre, Ericsson Telecomunicações S.A.,
Brazil.
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