1. concurrency provides

   1. improved response time

   2. greater reliability

   3. better structure for multiplicity

   4. operational flexibility - the parts rather than the whole

2. client-side concurrency

   1. response time - limited by the request-response model

   2. greater reliability - not that crucial

   3. structure - good for design, good for extending the request-response model

   4. operational flexibility - well, maybe

3. uses of client-side concurrency

   1. fast searching

   2. wide searching

   3. probabilistic protocols - leader election; reliable distributed distribution

4. asyncnronous server interactions

   1. each server interaction is syncnronous

   2. independent servers are asynchronous

5. single or multi-threaded client concurrency

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