Supporting fault-tolerant and open distributed processing using RPC

Computer Communications

Volumn 19, Issue 6-7, 1996, Pages 528-538

  Zhou, Wanlei ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Client server model; Distributed systems; Fault tolerant computing; Open distributed processing; Remote procedure calls

Indexed keywords

CLIENT/SERVER MODEL; REMOTE PROCEDURE CALLS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030174727     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-3664(96)01079-1     Document Type: Article

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