Conclusions

Communication Middleware

Uniform interface to resources

• Requirements-based
• Distributed and transparent without typical drawbacks

RDI helps exploit network heterogeneity

• Ethernet vs. ATM vs. wireless

Caching needs RDI

• Network caching integrated with local caching
• Cache management as a function of network environment

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