Effective multicast programming in large scale distributed systems

Many distributed applications have a strong requirement for efficient dissemination of large amounts of information to widely spread consumers in large networks. These include applications in e‐commerce and telecommunication. Publish/subscribe is considered one of the most important interaction styl...

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Veröffentlicht in:Concurrency and computation Jg. 13; H. 6; S. 421 - 447
Hauptverfasser: Eugster, Patrick Th, Boichat, Romain, Guerraoui, Rachid, Sventek, Joe
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.05.2001
Schlagworte:
concurrency
membership
multicast
partitions
reliability
scalability
ISSN:1532-0626, 1532-0634
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Zusammenfassung:Many distributed applications have a strong requirement for efficient dissemination of large amounts of information to widely spread consumers in large networks. These include applications in e‐commerce and telecommunication. Publish/subscribe is considered one of the most important interaction styles with which to model communication on a large scale. Producers publish information on a topic and consumers subscribe to the topics they wish to be informed of. The decoupling of producers and consumers in time, space, and flow makes the publish/subscribe paradigm very attractive for large scale distribution, especially in environments like the Internet. This paper describes the architecture and implementation of DACE (Distributed Asynchronous Computing Environment), a framework for publish/subscribe communication based on an object‐oriented programming ion in the form of Distributed Asynchronous Collection (DAC). DACs capture the variants of publish/subscribe, without blurring their respective advantages. The architecture we present is tolerant of network partitions and crash failures. The underlying model is based on the notion of Topic Membership: a weak membership for the parties involved in a topic. We present how Topic Membership enables the realization of a robust and efficient reliable multicast on a large scale. The protocol ensures that, inside a topic, even a subscriber who is temporarily partitioned away eventually receives a published message. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Agilent Laboratories and Lombard Odier & Co
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ISSN:1532-0626
1532-0634
DOI:10.1002/cpe.584