Efficient event routing in content-based publish-subscribe service networks

Fengyun Cao, Jaswinder Pal Singh

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Abstract

Efficient event delivery in a content-based publish/subscribe system has been a challenging problem. Existing group communication solutions, such as IP multicast or application-level multicast techniques, are not readily applicable due to the highly heterogeneous communication pattern in such systems. We first explore the design space of event routing strategies for content-based publish/subscribe systems. Two major existing approaches are studied: filter-based approach, which performs content-based filtering on intermediate routing servers to dynamically guide routing decisions, and multicast-based approach, which delivers events through a few high-quality multicast groups that are pre-constructed to approximately match user interests. These approaches have different trade-offs in the routing quality achieved and the implementation cost and system load generated. We then present a new routing scheme called Kyra that carefully balance these trade-offs. Kyra combines the advantages of content-based filtering and event-space partitioning in the existing approaches to achieve better overall routing efficiency. We use detailed simulations to evaluate Kyra and compare it with existing approaches. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of Kyra in achieving high network efficiency, reducing implementation cost and balancing system load across the publish-subscribe service network.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)929-940
Number of pages12
JournalProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
Volume2
StatePublished - 2004
EventIEEE INFOCOM 2004 - Conference on Computer Communications - Twenty-Third Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies - Hongkong, China
Duration: Mar 7 2004Mar 11 2004

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Event notification
  • Publish-subscribe
  • Simulations
  • System design

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