Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System

David Patrick Reed Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science MIT/LCS/TR-205 · September 1978 PhD dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Jerome H. Saltzer Sources: original supplied scan · MIT scan · MIT DSpace record Acknowledgments Abstract Contents Figures Chapter One: Introduction 1.1 The problem of a useful internode interface 1.1.2 Object Interfaces 1.1.3 Concurrency 1.1.4 Need for a Robust Interface 1.1.5 Conversational Interactions with Multiple Machines 1.2 Naming Mechanism as a Solution 1.3 Related Work 1.4 Thesis Plan Chapter Two: The communications system and storage system 2.1 Reliability of Message Communications 2.2 Synchronization of Message Communications 2.3 Reliability of Storage System 2.4 Synchronization of Storage Systems 2.5 Remotely requested actions