Engineering Mobile Wireless Publish/Subscribe Systems for High Performance

Decoupling flexible, scalable and asynchronous nature of publish/subscribe systems makes them a good choice for the mobile wireless domain. Our research investigates the application of publish/subscribe middleware to mobile cellular networks with the focus on their performance in such networks. The results show that current implementations of publish/subscribe systems as well as the traditional solutions for extending publish/subscribe systems to the mobile domain do not perform well in highly mobile and unreliable wireless settings. In order to overcome the challenges faced by publish/subscribe systems in a wireless mobile domain, this paper introduces a novel approach called semi-durable subscriptions. We present the semi-durable subscription approach and through rigorous experimentation prove its efficacy and superiority over traditional solutions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: MASCOTS
• Authors: Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons
• Keywords: MASCOTS 2004, MASCOTS 2007, Mobile Domain, Publish/subscribe Middleware, Publish/subscribe Systems