Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Understanding DCE
Distributed operating systems
Implementing remote procedure calls
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Some DCE Performance Analysis Results
Proceedings of the International DCE Workshop on DCE - The OSF Distributed Computing Environment, Client/Server Model and Beyond
SDNE '95 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments
Case Study: How Analytic Modeling Can Reveal Performance Problems in Distributed Systems
SDNE '96 Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (SDNE '96)
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Developing and managing applications for environments consisting of independently configured computing systems interoperating across network connections is of considerable interest in the commercial sector and presents many research challenges. The Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) has evolved to address the need for a vendor-neutral platform to which distributed applications can be developed. Central to the design philosophy of DCE is its reliance on the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to facilitate communication among the entities in the distributed environment. Since it profoundly affects the performance of both the DCE environment and applications running on top of it, RPC's performance is very much a concern of both application developers and system managers in a DCE installation. To shed light on some of these issues, this paper reports results from an ongoing investigation of DCE RPC and its performance in a commercially-available implementation, for IBM's OS/2 operating system. The results obtained to this point show the effects of protocol processing, of network load, and of flow control mechanisms, and suggest areas for further study.