%0 Journal Article %1 tay90 %A Tay, B. H. %A Ananda, A. L. %C New York, NY, USA %D 1990 %I ACM Press %J SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. %K concurrent software %N 3 %P 68--79 %R http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/382244.382832 %T A survey of remote procedure calls %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=382244.382832 %V 24 %X The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a popular paradigm for inter-process communication (IPC) between processes in different computers across the network. It is widely used in various Distributed Systems. Although it is conceptually simple and straightforward to implement, there are a lot of different and subtle issues involved which result different RPC implementations. In this paper, various distinctive RPC implementations are surveyed, analyzed and compared: Xerox Courier RPC, Xerox Cedar RPC, Sun ONC/RPC, Apollo NCA/RPC, Cambridge Mayflower Project RPC, MIT Athena Project RPC, Stanford Modula/V RPC, and Rajdoot RPC are presented. The design objectives, features provided, call semantics, orphan treatment, binding, transport protocols supported, security/authentication, data representation and application programming interface of these RPCs are examined.

@article{tay90, abstract = {The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a popular paradigm for inter-process communication (IPC) between processes in different computers across the network. It is widely used in various Distributed Systems. Although it is conceptually simple and straightforward to implement, there are a lot of different and subtle issues involved which result different RPC implementations. In this paper, various distinctive RPC implementations are surveyed, analyzed and compared: Xerox Courier RPC, Xerox Cedar RPC, Sun ONC/RPC, Apollo NCA/RPC, Cambridge Mayflower Project RPC, MIT Athena Project RPC, Stanford Modula/V RPC, and Rajdoot RPC are presented. The design objectives, features provided, call semantics, orphan treatment, binding, transport protocols supported, security/authentication, data representation and application programming interface of these RPCs are examined.}, added-at = {2007-06-17T20:51:13.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Tay, B. H. and Ananda, A. L.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24e89cc3a49814c2b952e913ed2f8088c/neilernst}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/382244.382832}, interhash = {c7aac0b0b576c52893575d48fe7b3a0e}, intrahash = {4e89cc3a49814c2b952e913ed2f8088c}, issn = {0163-5980}, journal = {SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev.}, keywords = {concurrent software}, number = 3, pages = {68--79}, publisher = {ACM Press}, timestamp = {2007-06-17T20:51:13.000+0200}, title = {A survey of remote procedure calls}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=382244.382832}, volume = 24, year = 1990 }