An experimental comparison of remote procedure call and group communication

Authors:
M. Frans Kaashoek;Andrew S. Tanenbaum;Kees Verstoep
Affiliations:
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Venue:
EW 5 Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring
Year:
1992

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Abstract

This paper suggests that a distributed system should support two communication paradigms: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and group communication. The former is used for point-to-point communication; the latter is used for one-to-many communication. We demonstrate that group communication is an important paradigm by showing that a fault-tolerant directory service is much easier to implement with groups than with RPC and is also more efficient. The directory service exemplifies distributed services that provide high reliability and availability by replicating data.