Network-transparent object naming and locating in the GALAXY distributed operating system
Pradeep K. Sinha, Kentaro Shimizu, Naoki Utsunomiya, Hirohiko Nakano, Mamoru Maekawa · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 1991
This paper describes the concepts and mechanisms for realizing network-transparent object naming and locating in distributed systems. Multiple global naming contexts and descriptive naming based on hierarchical names are important features for increasing the flexibility of naming for human users. The proposed mechanism for locating objects by means of their system-wide unique identifiers, which are used by many existing distributed operating systems, makes it possible to locate any object in the system right at an accessing node. It can be applied to general global flat name spaces. This paper analyzes the efficiency of this locating mechanism and its variations in comparison with conventional object locating mechanisms. This paper also describes the implementation issues of object naming and locating in the GALAXY distributed operating system now being developed by the authors.