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I am currently writing a State of Art about technologies used for distributed communication (like CORBA for example). I want to structure the document in way that I don't leave any subset of this technologies out of the research. My proposed solution is to structure the document by Communication Paradigms:

  • Interprocess Communication
  • Remote Invocation
  • Indirect Communication

Am I missing a paradigm? Are there another classifications that could be usefull for structure the document? Also if you can recommend me a good source to read about this topic, I would really apreciate it.

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  • $\begingroup$ "I want to structure the document in way that I don't leave any subset of this technologies out of the research." -- That's probably infeasible. If the field is not very new and/or inactive, chances are you'll have to make informed decisions about what to cover, otherwise you'll have a neverending project on your hands. $\endgroup$ – Raphael♦ Nov 13 '16 at 9:01
  • $\begingroup$ You are essentially asking for the survey of a whole field (which, ironically, seems to be your task!) which is too broad for this platform. Community votes, please! $\endgroup$ – Raphael♦ Nov 13 '16 at 9:03
  • $\begingroup$ Im just asking for an alternate way of classification or if I missing one of the Communication Paradigms. I don't know what survey are you talking about. And I know I probably can't write about all the technologies that ever existed, but I can include one of each category at least. This is can be a fairly easy question for a person that has knowledge or experencie with distribute systems. So I am asking for a more informed starting point here, you are not doing my work. If this question still doesn't comply the rules of the site I can delete it. $\endgroup$ – Renato Sanhueza Nov 13 '16 at 15:47
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Finally I decided to classify the distributed system technologies by the communication paradigm that they implement. The categories of communication paradigms I considered are:

  • Remote Procedure Call
  • Berkeley Sockets
  • Message Passing Interface
  • Message Oriented Middleware
  • Distributed Shared Memory
  • Stream Oriented Communication
  • Multicast Communication (based in peer-to-peer architecture)

I still have to do some research about some more modern implementations that can eventually use a paradigm not listed here.

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  • $\begingroup$ The Berkeley Sockets are for IPC? $\endgroup$ – Evil Nov 27 '16 at 23:17
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    $\begingroup$ You can use Berkeley Sockets for IPC, but it is not a good idea because they don't provide: distribution transparency, reliability or time decoupling. They are used to build higher levels of abstraction. I guess it depends on the application, but in enterprise-level distributed system it is not viable. $\endgroup$ – Renato Sanhueza Nov 28 '16 at 0:48

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