UIO: a uniform I/O system interface for distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Designing a global name service
PODC '86 Proceedings of the fifth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
VMTP: a transport protocol for the next generation of communication systems
SIGCOMM '86 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM conference on Communications architectures & protocols
Network measurement of the VMTP request-response protocol in the V distributed system
SIGMETRICS '87 Proceedings of the 1987 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Communications of the ACM
Multicast routing in internetworks and extended LANs
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
The VMP network adapter board (NAB): high-performance network communication for multiprocessors
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Decentralizing a global naming service for improved performance and fault tolerance
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Secure communication using remote procedure calls
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Host groups: a multicast extension for datagram internetworks
SIGCOMM '85 Proceedings of the ninth symposium on Data communications
Implementing remote procedure calls
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Local networking and internetworking in the V-system
SIGCOMM '83 Proceedings of the eighth symposium on Data communications
The experimental literature of the internet: an annotated bibliography
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A dynamic network architecture
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
M-RPC: a remote procedure call service for mobile clients
MobiCom '95 Proceedings of the 1st annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
| Hi-index | 0.01 |
Current communication architectures suffer from a growing collection of protocols in the host operating systems, gateways and applications, resulting in increasing implementation and maintenance cost, unreliability and difficulties with interoperability. The remote procedure call (RPC) approach has been used in some distributed systems to contain the diversity of application layer protocols within the procedure call abstraction. However, the same technique cannot be applied to lower layer protocols without violating the strict notion of layers.In this paper, we show how the RPC approach can be used for lower layer protocols so that the resulting “layer violations” generate a simple recursive structure. The benefits of exploiting recursion in a communication architecture are similar to those realized from its use as a programming technique; the resulting protocol architecture minimizes the complexity and duplication of protocols and mechanism, thereby reducing the cost of implementation and verification. We also sketch a redesigned DoD Internet architecture that illustrates the potential benefits of this approach. This work was sponsored in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under contract N00039-84-C-0211, by Digital Equipment Corporation, by the National Science Foundation Grant DCR-83-52048 and by ATT Information Systems.