Jonghun Park is an Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He says that a new protocol can improve Web services. Sandeep Junnarkar broke the story.
Jonghun Park proposed a method for sharing information between systems linked on the Internet promises to speed collaborative applications by up to 10 times the current rates.
The protocol, developed by Jonghun Park, a professor at Pennsylvania State University's School of Information Sciences and Technology, is based on an algorithm that lets it use parallel instead of serial methods to process requests. Such a method boosts the efficiency of how resources are shared over the Internet. The new protocol is called Order-based Deadlock Prevention Protocol with Parallel Requests.
For many years computer scientists have been proposing protocols to improve the efficiency of distributed computing systems, but Park asserts that his method works with greater efficiency for time-critical applications. The current protocol is generally known as the Order-based Deadlock Prevention Protocol, according to Park.
I had to read these two paragraphs a couple of times before catching the differences between the two names. Anyway, even if the performance is potentially impressive, there are many other issues about the deployment of Web services.
"Web services is currently held up -- in my opinion -- by things like security and reliability," said Stephen O'Grady, an analyst at RedMonk. Once those concerns are addressed, people will "turn their attention to something like this protocol, which would offer incremental improvements in performance."
More information about Jonghun Park's works can be found at his homepage.
Source: Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com, January 31, 2003
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