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Effects of routing computations in content-based routing networks with mobile data sources

Vinod Muthusamy / Milenko Petrovic / Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking, 2005 ยท Conference Paper

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This paper presents the first quantitative evaluation of the role of routing computations on performance when mobility is introduced to a content-based routing network. Additionally, the paper identifies the factors that affect the performance of a distributed publish/subscribe architecture supporting mobile publishers, formalizes publisher mobility protocols for distributed publish/subscribe systems, and develops and evaluates protocols that reduce the costs associated with supporting mobile publishers in publish/subscribe systems. Our results show that ignoring route computation time paints a false picture of the scalability of content-based routing networks, but that with appropriate protocols the adverse effects can be mitigated.