Strategies for using multicasting to locate resources

Author

Wills, Craig E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Worcester Polytech. Inst., Worcester, MA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

14-17 Oct 1991

Firstpage

589

Lastpage

598

Abstract

One issue in distributed computing systems is how to locate and manage resource information that is inherently distributed within the computing environment. The article investigates the use of a technique called multicasting for location of such distributed information. It presents three different strategies for using the resources contained by a machine to dynamically compute the multicast addresses on which the machine should listen for requests of the information. The central goal of these strategies is to filter out requests for resource information at the network interface of a machine so that a machine only receives a request for information if it contains the resource

Keywords

distributed processing; resource allocation; distributed computing systems; distributed information; information requests; multicast addresses; multicasting; network interface; resource information; resource location; resource management; Broadcast technology; Broadcasting; Computer networks; Computer science; Distributed computing; Environmental management; Information filtering; Information filters; Information management; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1991. Proceedings., 16th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2370-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1991.208112

Filename

208112