A system for managing remote procedure call transactions

This paper describes the design and implementation of a remote procedure call (RPC) transaction manager. The structures and constructions of RPC-based systems have been widely discussed, yet how to manage the RPC transactions by using these existing structures and constructions remains unclear. We have designed a system for managing RPC transactions based on our RPC transaction model. The system is designed at first to manage single RPC transactions. It is then expanded to manage parallel RPC transactions as well. Some properties of the system are described. We also present some descriptions of the preliminary implementation of our RPC transaction manager.