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OMen: overlay mending for topic-based publish/subscribe systems under churn

Chen Chen / Roman Vitenberg / Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, 2016 ยท Conference Paper

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Abstract

We propose, OMen, a distributed system for dynamically maintaining overlays for topic-based publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems. In particular, OMen supports churn-resistant construction of topic-connected overlays (TCO), which organizes all nodes interested in the same topic in a directly connected dissemination sub-overlay. While aiming at pub/sub deployments in data centers, OMen internally leverages selected peer-to-peer technologies, such as T-Man as the underlying topology maintenance protocol.