Communication primitives for ubiquitous systems or RPC considered harmful

Proceedings - 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 240-245

  Saif, U ^a   Greaves, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comvets; CORBA; Events; Jini; RMI; RPC

Indexed keywords

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); INTERFACE STATES; SEMANTICS;

COMMUNICATION PARADIGM; COMMUNICATION PRIMITIVES; COMVETS; EVENTS; JINI; MOBILITY-AWARE; UBIQUITOUS DEVICES; UBIQUITOUS SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34248169231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDCS.2001.918712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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