Everything about Distributed object communication

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Distributed object communicationA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: COM beyond MicrosoftThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Network considerations for distributed multimedia object composition and communicationCited 121 times
4. Go sideways: Remote procedure callA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Stub (distributed computing)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Network considerations for distributed multimedia object composition and communication

  T.D.C. Little, A. Ghafoor · 1990 · IEEE Network · 121 citations

• Distributed mapping with privacy and communication constraints: Lightweight algorithms and object-based models

  Siddharth Choudhary, Luca Carlone, Carlos Nieto · 2017 · The International Journal of Robotics Research · 121 citations

• A framework for immersive FEM visualisation using transparent object communication in a distributed network environment

  Mike Connell, Odd Tullberg · 2002 · Advances in Engineering Software · 21 citations

• Using tuple space communication in distributed object-oriented languages

  Satoshi Matsuoka, Satoru Kawai · 1988 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 14 citations

• Distributed and cooperative object pushing by multiple mobile robots based on communication

  Koichi Ozaki, Hajime Asama, Isao Endo · 1996 · Advanced Robotics · 2 citations

• Rationale for a Queueable Object Distributed Interprocess Communication System

  R. Walton · 1982 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 1 citations

• Message communication facilities for distributed real-time systems based on concurrent object-oriented paradigm

  Satoshi Tanaka, Katsumi Maruyama, Minoru Kubota · 1997 · Systems and Computers in Japan · 0 citations

• A communication micro-kernel for implementing object-oriented programming on closely coupled distributed architectures

  Giuliano Armano, Antonio Corradi, Valeria Filippi · 1999 · Concurrency: Practice and Experience · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• COM beyond MicrosoftTerence Sherlock, Terence Sherlock · 2000
• Enterprise Distributed Object ComputingIEEE Communications Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · 1998

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🔗 Related topics

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