It is the delay in communication, coupled with the lack of a common clock, which makes it much more difficult to develop mutual exclusion mechanisms in a distributed system compared to a centralized system.

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Distributed systems have no centralized clock or memory, so communication between nodes can be delayed, making it difficult to synchronize and coordinate access to shared resources. This makes developing mutual exclusion mechanisms more challenging than in a centralized system where all nodes have access to a shared clock and memory.

It Is the Delay in Communication, Coupled with the Lack