An asynchronous remote procedure call system for heterogeneous programming

Author

Lin, David D H ; Shirazi, Behrooz ; Peyravi, Hassan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

27-30 Mar 1991

Firstpage

153

Lastpage

159

Abstract

The authors introduce the reliable asynchronous remote procedure call (RARPC) which is an efficient communication control mechanism to support a heterogeneous distributed programming environment. The mechanism is based on an asynchronous control algorithm which is developed for managing multi-threaded asynchronous calls in the client/server model of the heterogeneous distributed environment. A RARPC communication exchange protocol is built on IP/UDP which is supported in the 4.3 BSD UNIX operating system. The RARPC prototype system is implemented among several Sun workstations and a VAX 11/780. The authors have measured the performance of the RARPC system and compared it to the Sun´s NFS/RPC. The results show that in terms of total RPC processing time, the RARPC can improve the performance up to 50% compared to Sun NFS/RPC, for a two-machine client/server model

Keywords

distributed processing; programming environments; protocols; 4.3 BSD UNIX operating system; IP/UDP; asynchronous remote procedure call system; client/server model; communication control mechanism; communication exchange protocol; heterogeneous distributed programming environment; performance; Communication system control; Distributed computing; Mathematical programming; Operating systems; Programming environments; Programming profession; Protocols; Reliability engineering; Sun; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1991. Conference Proceedings., Tenth Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2133-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1991.113805

Filename

113805