Title :
Distributed application development using ASTRA-an asynchronous remote procedure call mechanism
Author :
Ananda, A.L. ; Teh, H.C. ; Lee, Chan Lee ; Koh, E.K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Syst. & Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
The city-drivethru simulator is a distributed application that allows its users to drive interactively through a computer city. It makes use of a client program to interact with its users while its 3 servers display the scenery. The success of this application depends heavily on the synchronization of the displays by the 3 servers. ASTRA, the asynchronous RPC facility built within the SHILPA Distributed Computing Environment, is used for interprocess communication between the client and servers to allow simultaneous display of the scenery by the 3 servers. In addition, it effectively serves as a synchronization tool which is used by the client to synchronize the 3 servers. This paper gives a description of the city-drivethru simulator application followed by the findings of the performance tests conducted to investigate the influence of various variables on the application´s performance
Keywords :
client-server systems; interactive systems; performance evaluation; remote procedure calls; synchronisation; ASTRA; asynchronous remote procedure call mechanism; city-drivethru simulator application; client program; distributed application; interprocess communication; performance tests; servers; simultaneous display; synchronization; Application software; Buildings; Cities and towns; Computer displays; Distributed computing; Drives; Information systems; Local area networks; Microprocessors; Network servers;
Conference_Titel :
Networks, 1993. International Conference on Information Engineering '93. 'Communications and Networks for the Year 2000', Proceedings of IEEE Singapore International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1445-X
DOI :
10.1109/SICON.1993.515660
