NETMAN: an object-oriented environment for experimenting distributed algorithms on a network of workstations

Author

Naik, K. ; Tahara, Y. ; Cheng, Z.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Software, Aizu Univ., Fukushima, Japan

fYear

1998

fDate

28-31 Jul 1998

Firstpage

350

Lastpage

351

Abstract

We present the object oriented design of a software system called NETMAN to experiment distributed algorithms on a large network of workstations. The design has been structured into three layers and a central monitoring site. We have implemented the system in Java. Two asynchronous communication primitives, SEND and RECEIVE, have been implemented using Java´s remote method invocation mechanism. As an example, we executed a distributed mutual exclusion algorithm on a network of 60 workstations, and measured its performance under various scenarios

Keywords

computer networks; distributed algorithms; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; workstations; Java; NETMAN; RECEIVE; SEND; asynchronous communication primitives; central monitoring site; distributed algorithms; distributed mutual exclusion algorithm; network of workstations; object oriented design; object oriented environment; remote method invocation mechanism; software system; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer networks; Delay; Distributed algorithms; Distributed computing; Java; Monitoring; Object oriented modeling; Software design; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1998. Proceedings. The Seventh International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8579-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1998.710025

Filename

710025