Title :
A group RPC protocol for distributed systems
Author :
Lee, Chang-Seuk ; Lee, Kwang-Hui ; Lee, Jong-Kun
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Changwon Nat. Univ., South Korea
Abstract :
The RPC (remote procedure call) protocol is one of the popular communication mechanisms. It is very simple and transparent to write distributed programs. The RPC protocol user need not to have information on distributed environments and can easily construct distributed application systems. The RPC protocol reduces the communications overload since it uses messages to communicate. This paper presents a group communications to cooperate with the RPC. After creating a specific group by a user request, they can communicate with each other. A group RPC protocol can improve the reliability, transparency and facility of the classic RPC protocol. The group RPC proposed can be used in various applications such as video conference, replicated distributed database and distributed network management
Keywords :
computer network management; distributed processing; protocols; remote procedure calls; replicated databases; teleconferencing; communications overload reduction; distributed application systems; distributed network management; distributed programs; distributed systems; group RPC protocol; reliability; remote procedure call; replicated distributed database; transparency; video conference; Application software; Computer network reliability; Computer networks; Computer science; Distributed computing; Optical wavelength conversion; Protocols; Sun; Telecommunication network reliability; Videoconference;
Conference_Titel :
Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 1997. ICICS., Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3676-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICICS.1997.652090