USENIX Conference Policies
A Generic Multicast Transport Service to Support Disconnected Operation
Silvano Maffeis, Walter Bischofberger, and Kai-Uwe Mätzel, Cornell University and UBILAB, Union Bank of Switzerland
RPC latencies and other network-related delays can frustrate mobile users of a distributed file system. Disconnected operation helps, but fails to use networking opportunities to their full advantage. In this paper we describe partially connected operation, an extension of disconnected operation that resolves cache misses and preserves client cache consistency, but does not incur the write latencies of a fully connected client. Benchmarks of partially connected mode over a slow network indicate overall system performance comparable to fully connected operation over Ethernet.
BibTeX
@inproceedings {252324,
author = {Silvano Maffeis and Walter Bischofberger and Kai-Uwe M"atzel},
title = {A Generic Multicast Transport Service to Support Disconnected Operation},
booktitle = {Second USENIX Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing ( Second USENIX Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing)},
year = {1995},
address = {Ann Arbor, MI},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/second-usenix-symposium-mobile-and-location-independent-computing/generic-multicast},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr
}
author = {Silvano Maffeis and Walter Bischofberger and Kai-Uwe M"atzel},
title = {A Generic Multicast Transport Service to Support Disconnected Operation},
booktitle = {Second USENIX Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing ( Second USENIX Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing)},
year = {1995},
address = {Ann Arbor, MI},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/second-usenix-symposium-mobile-and-location-independent-computing/generic-multicast},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr
}