# Coordination Overhead

> The additional cost incurred to synchronize and coordinate concurrent or distributed units of work.

Record: `lex:coordination-overhead`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-coordination-overhead

## category

- [Quality Attributes](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/quality-attributes.md)

## referenced-by

- [Parallelism](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/parallelism.md)
- [Fan-out/Fan-in](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/fan-out-fan-in.md)