Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 1991. Conference Proceedings., Tenth Annual International Phoenix Conference on
Conference_Location :
Scottsdale, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2133-8
DOI :
10.1109/PCCC.1991.113805
