• DocumentCode
    3556794
  • Title

    A service acquisition mechanism for the client/service model in Cygnus

  • Author

    Chang, Rong N. ; Ravishankar, Chinya V.

  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    20-24 May 1991
  • Firstpage
    90
  • Lastpage
    97
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Distributed Computing Systems, 1991., 11th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Arlington, TX
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-2144-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICDCS.1991.148648
  • Filename
    148648