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A very convenient means of arranging communication between ‘client’ and ‘server’ processes in a distributed system is to make use of Remote Procedure Calls (RPC’s) enabling clients to invoke services offered by remote servers and obtain appropriate results. Conceptually, a very simple client-server protocol is needed to implement an RPC mechanism: the client sends its service request as a ‘call’ message to the server, and waits for a reply; the server on the other hand receives the ‘call’ message, performs the service and sends the result as a ‘reply’ message to the client. Despite the apparent simplicity of such a protocol, a number of reliability issues are involved that require careful analysis during the design phase. This paper briefly reviews work done at Newcastle in this area, details of which can be found in [Pan82, Shr82, Shr83, Shr84].
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Shrivastava, S.K. (1984). Reliable Remote Procedure Calls (Extended Abstract). In: Belli, F., Pfleger, S., Seifert, M. (eds) Software-Fehlertoleranz und -Zuverlässigkeit. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 83. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69705-0_9
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