Locating objects in wide-area systems
Locating objects in wide-area systems
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在广域系统中定位对象
DOI:
10.1109/35.649334
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发表时间:
1998
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通讯作者:
A. Tanenbaum
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作者:
M. V. Steen;F. Hauck;P. Homburg;A. Tanenbaum
Locating mobile objects in a worldwide system requires a scalable location service. An object can be a telephone or a notebook computer, but also a software or data object, such as a file or an electronic document. Our service strictly separates an object's name from the addresses where it can be contacted. This is done by introducing a location-independent object handle. An object's name is bound to its unique object handle, which, in turn, is mapped to the addresses where the object can be contacted. To locate an object, we need only its object handle. We present a scalable location service based on a worldwide distributed search tree that adapts dynamically to an object's migration pattern to optimize lookups and updates.