Experience with distributed objects in a portable and multithreaded library for a LAN/WAN gateway application

Author

Yasrebi, Mehrad

Author_Institution

Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

16-19 Oct 1995

Firstpage

164

Lastpage

173

Abstract

Design of a multithreaded, object oriented C++ class library for a simple LAN/WAN gateway application is described. The design supports both the algorithm used in various existing commercial products and another simple and enhanced algorithm. The design takes advantage of the inheritance and polymorphism properties of the object oriented paradigm, is based on Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs), and is expressed in terms of a portable, heterogeneous set of port objects. The multithreaded performance is modelled, and is compared to long duration observed values. RPC environments are becoming widespread, but their application-level performance characteristics are not well-understood. This experiment is one of the first such reported for object-oriented RPC environments. Instructive observations, based on this experience, about the library and concurrent RPC performance modelling technique are presented

Keywords

internetworking; local area networks; object-oriented programming; performance evaluation; remote procedure calls; wide area networks; C++ class library; LAN/WAN gateway; RPC performance modelling; Remote Procedure Calls; distributed objects; multithreaded; multithreaded performance; object oriented; port objects; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Availability; Distributed computing; Libraries; Local area networks; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Predictive models; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1995., Proceedings. 20th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7162-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1995.527341

Filename

527341