Introducing Publiy: a multi-purpose distributed publish/subscribe system
Proceedings of the Posters and Demo Track
Language expressiveness and quality of service for publish/subscribe systems
Proceedings of the 9th Middleware Doctoral Symposium of the 13th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference
Building a reliable and high-performance content-based publish/subscribe system
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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In this paper, we develop reliable distributed publish/subscribe algorithms that can tolerate concurrent failure of up to d broker machines or communication links. In our approach, d is a configuration parameter which determines the level of fault-tolerance of the system and reliability refers to exactly-once and per-source, in-order delivery of publications to clients with matching subscriptions. We propose protocols to address three problems in presence of broker or link failures: (i) subscription propagation, (ii) publication forwarding, and (iii) broker recovery. Finally, we study the effectiveness of our approach when the number of concurrent failures exceeds d. Through large-scale experimental evaluations with up to 500 brokers, we demonstrate that a system configured with a modest value of d = 3 is able to reliably deliver 97% of publications in presence of failure of up to 17% of its brokers.