A pro-active mobility extension for pub/sub systems

  • Authors:
  • Abdulbaset Gaddah;Thomas Kunz

  • Affiliations:
  • Carleton University, Ont., Canada;Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st international conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient mobility extension based on a pro-active approach (i.e., the context transfer/caching occurs prior to the subscriber movement) with the objective to extend existing pub/sub systems to the mobile environments. We also describe the notion of neighbor graph, which forms the basis for pre-loading the subscriber context one hop ahead of its current location. We have investigated the adequacy of our proposed proactive approach in supporting mobile subscribers and compared its behavior with a durable subscription-based approach adapted by JMS-based pub/sub systems. The experimental results show that our pro-active approach reduces the message loss by more than 50% and the message duplication to zero compared to the durable subscription-based approach. It also achieves better throughput results with low cost in terms of mobility extension overhead.