Measurements of DCE RPC performance in an OS/2 environment

Developing and managing applications for environments consisting of independently congured computing systems interoperating acrossnetwork connections is of considerable interest in the commercial sector and presents many research challenges. The Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) has evolved to address the need for a vendor-neutral platform to which distributed applications can be developed. Central to the design philosophy of DCE is its reliance on the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to facilitate communication among the entities in the distributed environment. Since it profoundly aects the performance of both the DCE environment and applications running on top of it, RPC's performance is very much a concern of both application developers and system managers in a DCE installation. To shed light on some of these issues, this paper reports results from an ongoing investigation of DCE RPC and its performance in a commercially-available implementati...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: CASCON
• Authors: Ying Sun, Rick Bunt, Gregory M. Oster
• Keywords: CASCON 1996, CASCON 2007, DCE Environment, DCE RPC, Distributed Computing Environment