Measuring and optimizing CORBA latency and scalability over high-speed networks

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 391-413

  Gokhale, Aniruddha S ^a,b   Schmidt, Douglas C ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

CORBA communication middleware performance; Distributed object computing; Real time CORBA

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); DISTRIBUTED OBJECT COMPUTING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032051312     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.675710     Document Type: Article

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