Title: Supporting time-critical clients in scalable pub-sub systems

Authors: Sibabrata Ray, Mark H. Linderman, Danyang Zhang

Addresses: Google Inc., 604 Arizona Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA. ' Air Force Research Laboratory, 525 Brooks Road, Rome, NY 13441-4505, USA. ' Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, School of Arts and Sciences, York College, The City University of New York, 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11451, USA

Abstract: In a publish-subscribe environment like the Air Force Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI), information/data has to be efficiently and reliably transmitted between servers and clients. However, due to various reasons such as unexpected network traffic, hardware/software failure, etc., the overlay network of the system may require reconfiguration, leading to intolerable service interruption of information flow to time-critical applications. This paper proposes theoretical methods for providing temporary respite to the time-critical clients while the backbone network is under repair.

Keywords: overlay networks; Joint Battlespace Infosphere; US Air Force JBI; alternate server lists; recovery schemes; reliability; information flow; time-critical applications; service interruption; publish-subscribe environments.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2010.037796

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2010 Vol.6 No.3/4, pp.220 - 225

Published online: 30 Dec 2010 *

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