Remote Procedure Call (RPC): Lecture 4

Question 1

Two major components for a RPC mechanism

Answer 1

1) A Protocol

2) Programming Language and (stub) complier support

Question 2

Possible semantics for RPC

Answer 2

1) Exactly-once
2) At least once
3) At most once

Question 3

Fault tolerance measures

Answer 3

1) Retransmit request message
2) Duplicate filtering
3) Re-execute procedure or retransmit reply