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Configuring distributed systems

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Author	Sloman, Morris Magee, Jeff Kramer, Jeff
Abstract	Distributed systems are constructed from a set of computational components which are bound together to interact and communicate to achieve some over all objective. In this paper, we examine the issues related to system configuration, particularly those related to component binding. We argue that there is a need for tools to aid the initial construction and subsequent management of the structure of distributed systems.Currently, distributed systems are most commonly structured using a client/server approach. Servers register the service they provide by installing the name and type of the service together with a reference to that service in a distinguished server generally known as a name server. Clients bind to a particular service by looking up the reference in a name server (the reference to which must be well known). Once the client has retrieved the service reference, the service may be directly invoked (although, if the reference is location independent, it may require translation to an address). ANSA[1] is an example of a distributed systems environment which conforms to this paradigm with the extension of providing a more general service than name to reference translation via its Traders. Traders provide the ability to locate services by attribute in addition to simple name lookup.Problems with the client/server approach arise when the systems we wish to construct have a more complex interconnection structure than the simple many-to-one interconnection pattern which the approach directly supports. In particular, where the distributed program is more sensibly viewed as a set of agents with peer-to-peer connections. An example is the way applications may be constructed under Unix from a pipeline of filter processes. Although all reasonable systems allow servers to be the client for other services, the interconnection process becomes tortuous. It is the authors view that as distributed systems mature and become more complex, as servers themselves are realised by distributed multi-agent programs, this problem will become more acute.
Starting Page	1
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Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1145/506378.506406
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1992-09-21
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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