Reducing communication to a buffer and queue model

Abstract

In our work, we seek to reduce the communication problem to its critical concepts and build a simple, efficient, and general communication paradigm based on these concepts. We present the Buffer and Queue Model, which contains a set of communication abstractions and primitives which is simple and general, rigorous and flexible, low-level and extensible. We show how this model seeks to utilize the efficiencies of shared memory communication while providing a universal communications interface between various types of entities across a wide spectrum of environments. We give examples of how various complex communication facilities may be developed from this low-level communication system.