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DHPC Technical Report DHPC-093

A Model of Location Transparency

K.E.K. Falkner

Archived: 5 July 2000

Published in Proc. of the 7th IDEA Workshop, Victor Harbour, February 2000.

Abstract

Location transparency removes the need for client objects to explicitly know or define the location of a server object when communicating. If a server object is capable of migration, relocation transparency maintains reference validity throughout the migration. Several models for providing location transparency exist, including the home location, forwarding locations and Stub-Scion Pair chain models. This paper proposes a model that uses a distributed registry system and dynamic reference updating to provide location and relocation transparency. A comparison of the models is presented.

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