Open AccessEnhanced JRMP multiplexing headers under non‐fragmented local area network constraints
Author(s) -
BasantaVal P.,
García Valls M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1350-911X
pISSN - 0013-5194
DOI - 10.1049/el.2013.2239
Subject(s) - computer science , computer network , local area network , network packet , user datagram protocol , fragmentation (computing) , distributed computing , simple (philosophy) , port control protocol , ethernet , internet protocol , multiplexing , the internet , packet switching , resource reservation protocol , operating system , telecommunications , philosophy , epistemology
A simple but effective optimisation for a popular level‐5 protocol called Java's Remote Method Protocol, which is used in a distribution model named RMI (Java's Remote Method Invocation) is presented. The protocol has been enhanced with a simple multiplexing mechanism which offers the possibility of transferring several parallel request–response interactions without opening new transfer control protocol/Internet protocol connections. The temporal overhead and the advantages stemmed from the approach in terms of response‐time are explored in a simple but realistic evaluation scenario: a local area network (LAN) (switched‐Ethernet) infrastructure under the small packet size condition (i.e. when the remote invocation does not have packet fragmentation). Presented results show that the proposed extensions are useful in the LAN scenario under the non‐fragmentation assumption in applications that do not require packet fragmentation.