Impact of Mobile and Distributed Systems on System Analysis and Design

This report critically analyzes the challenges that the spread of mobile systems and distributed computer systems pose for system analysts and designers. It begins with an introduction highlighting the increasing complexity of mobile communication and distributed computer systems. The report then delves into the specific challenges, such as the exponential increase in wireless data traffic in mobile systems and scalability and security issues in distributed systems. It provides a critical analysis, drawing on various sources to assess the impact of these systems on the roles of system analysts and designers. The report emphasizes the need for system analysts to design robust systems to handle issues such as scalability and security. The conclusion summarizes the main points, highlighting that the system analysts face increasing challenges due to the expansion of mobile and distributed computer systems. The report covers the roles of system analysts and discusses the issues that they face in ensuring the smooth functioning of complex systems, and also includes references to the literature reviewed.

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Introduction:
The mobile phones are very much essential in the present generation as it helps to stay
connected with the other peoples, which provide a logical sense of security to the users. The
use of the mobile phones is gradually increasing with the time which is making the mobile
communication system more and more complex. Besides that, another type of complex
system is the distributed computer system. As this both of technology is very much complex
it may create challenges for the system analysts or designers (Hella et al. 2015).
In this article, a critical analysis will be done whether the spread of the mobile
systems and the distributed computer system is creating significant challenges for the system
analysts or not. Further discussion will be carried out about the mobiles and the distributed
computer systems.
Mobile and Distributed Computer System:
The mobile communication system runs on a very much complex process. Handling
and analysing this type of complex network is not a very easy task for the system analyst. The
main challenges which the system analyst and the system designers are facing is the
increment in the wireless data traffic (Loo, Mauri and Ortiz 2016). Managing this huge
amount of data traffic becoming more and more challenging every day for the system
analysts as the number of users is gradually increasing. It is assessed that this type of problem
may be solved in the future by the implementation of the heterogeneous communication
system of the mobile networks, but for the present situation, this issue is a big concern for the
system analysts and the designers (Di Bernardo, Salvi and Santini 2015).
In the case of the distributed computer system, the scenario is totally the same. There
are various type of issues related to the distributed computer system for which the system
analyst and the designers are facing challenges to handle the system properly. One of the

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major and common issue related with the distributed computer system is the scalability issue
(Dhage, Thakare and Mohod 2015). This issue arises due to the communication capacity of
the distributed network. In such of cases the current distribution network failed to meet the
required capacity of the communication channel. One of the main roles of the system analysts
or the designers is to plan the system properly, so the work process flows smoothly. While
this type of scalability issues are arising, it is becoming very much challenging for the system
analysts to accommodate this type of network issues. Another major issue with the distributed
computing system is the security related issue (Wang, Yu and Xie 2013). A distributive type
of system deals with various types of important data which must be protected properly.
Because of the huge size of the distributed network, many of the times security-related
concern arises. In such of the cases the system analysts and the designers faces problem to fix
this issue. While the size of network is growing every day, it is becoming more challenging
for the system analysts and the designers to handle this type of issues.
Critical Analysis:
According to the authors, Gaj, Jasperneite and Felser (2013) computer systems are
related to the major type of human activities, and these systems are constantly supporting
those activities. A big factor in this human activity is the communication process over a
network. This is a common activity which is done by most of the normal peoples on a regular
basis. As per the author, most of the process of communication is based on distributed
computer networks (Das 2013). The authors stated that in this type of computer network
system the main role of the humans is to act as an automation system designer, user and as a
builder. Here the system designers are the system analysts. In this type system, the main role
of handling all the user requests is done by the computer automatically (Mobedpour and Ding
2013). Here the system analysts and designers are responsible for designing the computer
program so that the computer can perform all the task automatically. The author has assessed

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that these industrial distributed computer systems are classified on some specific attributes.
These attributes are the software, hardware and physical components. With the hardware part,
the software part is equally important to determine the performance of a distributed computer
system (Gaj, Jasperneite and Felser 2013) for which the system analysts and the designers are
responsible.
In the article of the “5G technology of mobile communication: A survey” the authors
Gohil, Modi and Patel (2013) has stated that the mobile devices and the network technologies
of the mobile have a huge development in the recent years. According to the authors, the
spreading issue of mobile devices has a vast impact on the communication network. As the
users are increasing, the communication process becomes much slower because of the huge
amount of requests in a particular amount of time. As per the author, the system analyst
needed to develop some alternative way to mitigate this problem.
In this article, it has been found that the system analyst and the designers have a prior
impact in the case of designing a distributed computing system which can help in the aspects
of the communication (Kvan, West and Vera 2015). The system analyst and the designers
must be able to design the distributive system in a perfect way so that the above-discussed
issues of the distributive computer systems can be mitigated.
So, it can be critically stated that the spread of the mobile devices and the distributed
computer system are presenting new challenges for the system analysts and the system
designers. It is stated because from the analysis of the above literature review it is assessed
that the roles of the system analysts and the designers is to ensure that the all the process of
the system works fluently. The main issue, in this case, is that the number of mobile users is
gradually increasing and for that, every optimization which is done by the system analysts
and the designers are becoming insufficient (Loo, Mauri and Ortiz 2016). Also, the

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distributed system also faces various type of issues because of the hardware limitations for
which the system analysts become responsible (Wu 2017). So it can be stated that the spread
of the mobile and the distributed computer system presenting new challenges to the system
analysts and the designers.
Conclusion:
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that the systems analysts and the
system designers are facing new challenges due to the spread of the distributed computer
systems and mobile communication. In this article, a brief description of the mobile
communication system and the distributed computer system has been given. In this section,
the roles of a system analyst have also been discussed. Following the discussion, literature
reviews have been analysed for comparing the findings of this article. Further, critical
analysis has been given from which it is assessed that the system analysts are facing various
types of challenges due to the increment of the mobile and the distributed computer systems.

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