Title: An optimised publish/subscribe middleware for peer-to-peer systems

Authors: Antonio Javier Garcia-Sanchez, Felipe Garcia-Sanchez, Pablo Pavon-Marino, Joan Garcia-Haro

Addresses: Department of Information Technologies and Communications, Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar, Plaza del Hospital, 1, Cartagena 30202, Spain. ' Department of Information Technologies and Communications, Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar, Plaza del Hospital, 1, Cartagena 30202, Spain. ' Department of Information Technologies and Communications, Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar, Plaza del Hospital, 1, Cartagena 30202, Spain. ' Department of Information Technologies and Communications, Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar, Plaza del Hospital, 1, Cartagena 30202, Spain

Abstract: The publish/subscribe paradigm provides a very effective and reliable scheme to implement Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks. In these systems, the reduction of the number of messages associated to the searching procedure is a crucial issue. In this paper, we study the current publish/subscribe systems and propose an Optimised Middleware (OMCPS), suitable for the implementation of large-scale content delivery systems. The main idea behind our proposal is to reduce the conventional message distribution and searching process by using a well-known decentralised algorithm (the Chord). In addition, the internal OMCPS organisation among the Servers that conforms the P2P system is transparent to the consumer and supplier applications.

Keywords: middleware; structured P2P networks; peer-to-peer networks; publish-subscribe architecture.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2008.020260

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2008 Vol.1 No.2, pp.195 - 215

Published online: 10 Sep 2008 *

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