Title :
The design of a rendezvous store for system and network management
Author :
McIntosh, M.J. ; Li, K.F. ; Manning, E.G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada
Abstract :
The rendezvous store is a form of indirect, attribute-based interprocess communication mechanism. It facilitates the sharing of data among many processes transparently in a scalable manner, and separates synchronization from communication. The authors have modified the original rendezvous store because of the specific requirements of certain intended applications in system and network management. The present rendezvous store is intended to be used in system and network management on a LAN (local area network). It will store static and dynamic information about network resources. Modifications include explicitly typed rendezvous objects providing an expressive means of encapsulating data for exchange, locating objects in the store using inequality operations, and a new definition for object compatibility. Rationales for these changes are discussed. System architecture and implementation are highlighted
Keywords :
computer network management; local area networks; object-oriented methods; synchronisation; LAN; attribute-based interprocess communication; design; inequality operations; local area network; object compatibility; rendezvous objects; rendezvous store; sharing of data; synchronization; system and network management; Computer architecture; Computer network management; Computer science; Content based retrieval; Distributed computing; Dynamic scheduling; Engineering management; Local area networks; Message passing; Operating systems;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1993., IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0971-5
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.1993.407170
