Title :
A service acquisition mechanism for the client/service model in Cygnus
Author :
Chang, Rong N. ; Ravishankar, Chinya V.
Abstract :
Three of the most important issues in exploiting network servers concern how to specify services so that service-server bindings can be changed dynamically without disturbing clients, how to make clients resilient to network or server failure, and how to accommodate server protocol heterogeneity to provide a single system view to the clients. A service acquisition mechanism is presented for solving these issues. This mechanism is designed under a client/service model in which the abstraction of service is a first-class entity. The components of the mechanism are discussed
Keywords :
computer networks; Cygnus; client/service model; network failure; network servers; server failure; server protocol; service acquisition; service-server bindings; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Ice; Intelligent networks; Kernel; Network servers; Operating systems; Protocols; Runtime environment;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1991., 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2144-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCS.1991.148648
