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....In summary, publish subscribe is a communications architecture where information flow is directed by the interest of the consumers of information rather than by specific addresses determined by the sender. Carzaniga, Rosenblum and Wolf summarized four event notification subscription languages in [7,14] which we briefly review in this section: channel based subscriptions, subject based subscriptions, context based subscriptions, and context based subscriptions with patterns. The concept of the subscription channel is similar to tuning in to a television or radio channel. The channel ....

....the subscription languages above. In this architecture, subscription services are based on interested parties listening to, or subscribing to, a single channel. Event notifications posted to the channel are delivered by the event service to all the interested parties that listen to that channel [14]. Subscribing to web based streaming media is a form of channel subscription. Another example of a channel subscription is a when subscribers listen for activity on a particular queue. Event driven subject based subscription is one of the current commercial trends in publish subscribe networking. ....

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Carzaniga, A., "Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scaleable to Wide-area Networks," PhD Thesis, Politecnico di Milano, December 1998.

....as profiles. Information about (moving) objects is delivered depending on its importance to the user, where importance depends on the spatial distance between object and user. A large variety of event notification systems has been implemented, as for example SIFT [35] Salamander [21] Siena [4], OpenCQ [20] Elvin [26] Gryphon [29] NiagaraCQ [5] LeSubscribe [24] Hermes [8] and A TOPSS [18] The few ENS used in the context of tourist information have been focussing on traveller support in travel planning and route guidance, e.g. in the Genesis system [27] For event notification ....

A. Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, 1998.

....LIRA uses and extends the approach of network management architectures and protocols, where an Agent directly controls the managed device and a Manager initiates the reconfigurations. Here we further describe a LIRA Agent for a server in Siena (Scalable Internet Event Notification Architecture) [6], a general publish subscribe service that uses an innovative content based routing mechanism. 4.1 LIRA LIRA furnishes a general interface to act over components and applications. This interface is realized using a simple architecture and protocol, allowing one to get and set variables and ....

Antonio Carzaniga: "Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks", PhD Thesis, Politechico di Milano, December, 1998.

....by the project POSI 41473 CHS 2001, INDIQoS. 1 Service [12] CORBA Notification Service [11] Java Message Service [14] and to systems, such as CEA (Cambridge Event Architecture) 2] Distributed Asynchronous Collections [9] or SIENA (Scalable Internet Event Notification Architectures) [6]. This is a significant drawback, since QoS features are an important component of applications, and its use and support has been widely studied in the context of direct communication [5, 4, 16, 3] There is a fundamental reason for the current state of the art: Traditional approaches to QoS ....

Antonio Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, December 1998.

....way effective policy rules can be defined. We grant access rights to credentials. In this paper we focus on how to define the basic control rules. We also present a screening mechanism, which makes it possible to define confidential attributes in the notifications. We use the notation defined in [6]. The remainder of the paper is structured as follows. Section 2 demonstrates some threats that the publish subscribe systems face without an access control mechanism. Section 3 presents our solution. Section 4 contains related work and Section 5 provides a conclusion and a look at future work. ....

....are initiated. Thus always publishing in new topics can be seen as an attack against the routing infrastructure. Strict lower bound filters only allow attributes which have a corresponding constraint in the advertisement. There are effective methods to prove whether the relation 7] satisfies [5, 6, 9], so we belive that on the basis of access control filters, an expressive policy language can be defined for which efficient compliance checking exists. 3.4 Control rules for subscribers Analogously to publishers, we define how access rights to subscribe can be granted based only on ....

A. Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, Dec. 1998.

....reconfiguration of applications as well as re use of components in new applications. Unfortunately, most existing publish subscribe architectures and implementations, such as for instance, the CEA (Cambridge Event Architecture) 3] SIENA (Scalable Internet Event Notification Architectures) [6], CORBA Event Service [9] CORBA Notification Service [8] or JMS (Java Message Service) 13] offer very limited support to QoS provision. For instance, the specification of bandwidth or latency constraints is typically not considered in these architectures. This is a significant drawback, since ....

Antonio Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, December 1998.

.... applies both to models, such as the CORBA Event Service [11] CORBA Notification Service [10] Java Message Service [12] and to systems, such as CEA (Cambridge Event Architecture) 1] Distributed Asynchronous Collections [8] or SIENA (Scalable Internet Event Notification Architectures) [6]. This is a significant drawback, since QoS features are an important component of applications, and its use and support has been widely studied in the context of direct communication [4, 3, 13, 2] There is a fundamental reason for the current state of the art: Traditional approaches to QoS ....

Antonio Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, December 1998.

....all the descriptive information require context information, such as, date and time format, metric system, currency, etc. to correctly interpret data. 2. 2 Distribution: Detection of global composite events There are several approaches that deal with distribution, in the area of event propagation [6, 14, 8, 15]. However, they do not consider event composition, where order between events is required to apply event operators (e.g. sequence) or to consume events coming from different locations. Normally, events are timestamped to provide a time based order, but in open distributed environments global time ....

A. Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks, Ph.D. Thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 1998.

....abstraction for a growing class of distributed systems. Yet to date there has been a lack of su#ciently powerful and scalable middleware infrastructures to support event based interaction in a widearea network. We refer to such a middleware infrastructure as an event notification service. Siena [4, 6, 9, 15, 25] is our prototype Internet scale event notification service that is representative of the capabilities we envision for scalable event notification middleware. Siena is designed to be a ubiquitous service accessible from every site on a wide area network. 4.1.9.1 Architecture As shown in Figure ....

Antonio Carzaniga, "Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Widearea Networks," Dec. 1998, Ph. D. Thesis, Politecnico di Milano,

....their semantics resemble those of content based subscription systems. 4.1 Event Distribution Systems Relatively few event distribution systems [25] allow subscriptions to be expressed as predicates over the entire message content. A few noteworthy examples of this emerging category are SIENA [6], READY [10] Elvin [20] JEDI [7] Yeast [12] GEM [15] and Gryphon [2] All of these systems support rich subscription predicates, and thus face problems of scalability in their event distribution algorithms. 4 Also, under total regionalism, all matching subscriptions will be in the same ....

....has been accomplished and it is reportedly in use by some customers. 5 This extends the reach of the Rendezvous solution to a somewhat wider network, but the solution still employs a single group and is optimized for the LAN case, where the cost of multicast and unicast are similar. Both SIENA [6], and our previous work in the Gryphon project [2] explored algorithms that delivered events over a logical network of brokers. These algorithms delivered events only to interested subscribers, employed only links that were along a path to an interested subscriber, and sent each message at most ....

Antonio Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, December 1998. Available from http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~carzanig/papers/.

....the obvent type as the basic subscription criterion. A pure static subscription scheme, like topics (e.g. 50, 59, 2, 16, 64] also called subjects) or types in our case, has been shown to o#er only limited expressiveness. This observation has motivated content based publish subscribe (e.g. [1, 17, 12, 58], also called property based publish subscribe) where a subscription takes properties of obvents into consideration. When subscribing, the desired properties are expressed through a predicate, or filter. We thus combine a subscription to a type T with the declaration of such a filter: ....

A. Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Dec. 1998.

....always access the original page through the network. Pages can be cached to improve performance, but this happens internally and is completely transparent to all parties. The current state of service reuse is procedure call or message passing; scaleable broadcast systems are still experimental [1]. They are, however, a prerequisite of dynamic linking on an Internet scale, since the linker has to be notified of component updates. For many systems, code reuse will not be possible, either because the amount of code and data is too large to be transferred or because code and data change too ....

Carzaniga, A. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-Area Networks. PhD Thesis. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, 1998.

....distribution. Alerting services may be implemented in many ways. Since notification about events is a useful paradigm in di#erent kinds of applications several distributed notification infrastructures have been developed in order to evaluate scalability, examples are JEDI [7] Elvin [16] Siena [4], and NiagaraCQ [5] The profile definition languages supported by JEDI, Elvin and Siena are too restricted and not appropriate to support sophisticated full text retrieval. NiagaraCQ supports XML QL queries that select subtrees in an XML document. In contrast to such tree based queries, filters ....

....elimination, and relevance feedback. Improving the filtering quality can be achieved by applying the methods of text retrieval to alerting. Hermes is designed for scalability. Its loosely coupled components can each be deployed in multiple instances and thus share their work. Related projects [4] have shown that cooperating alerting services can improve scalability. Consider an instance of an alerting service that receives metadata from publishers and propagates it to topic specific instances. Further research is necessary to find methods to compute the covering relations [4] of profiles ....

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A. Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, Dec. 1998.

....This simplifies the reconfiguration of the applications and eases the re use of components in new applications. A limitation of most existing architectures that support the publisher subscriber communication, such as for instance, the SIENA (Scalable Internet Event Notification Architectures) [5] system, is that they do not offer support for the negotiation or enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS) parameters (such as required bandwidth or latency, for instance) This is a significant drawback since QoS features are an important component of modern applications, and its use and support ....

....between clients and servers nor to reconfigure these channels based on subsequent requests. The current paper reports preliminary work on defining an architecture that integrates the use and provision of QoS in indirect communication systems. As in many indirect communication architectures [5], publishers and subscribers only talk to intermediate servers that coordinate themselves to forward the information adequately. The paper points out some necessary changes to the publishersubscriber model such that QoS is to be viewed in an integrated way by applications, message broker and ....

Antonio Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, December 1998.

....well known pbcast [4] algorithm. Roadmap. Section 2 gives an overview of related gossip based broadcast protocols. Section 3 presents our lpbcast algorithm and explains our randomized approach. Section 4 presents a formal analysis of our algorithm in terms 1 These are also called event servers [5], routing daemons [27] or message brokers [1] 2 Due to its decoupling nature, the publish subscribe paradigm has been used in various large scale contexts, e.g, 20, 9] of scalability and reliability. Section 5 gives some simulation and practical results supporting the formal analysis. ....

A. Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Dec. 1998.

....architecture that is similar to but more advanced than JEDI s. SIENA has been designed to support event based communication in wide area networks such as the Internet and features code mobility. Its architecture is introduced in [CRW98] and a detailed description can be found in the Ph.D. thesis [Car98]. 7.1 The SIENA Event Model Architecture The SIENA infrastructure implements a scalable general purpose event model that is based on a distributed architecture of event servers. In SIENA s terminology, events are produced by objects of interest and consumed by interested parties. The propagation ....

....Server Topologies The propagation of events is the responsibility of a logically centralised component to which objects of interest and interested parties are connected. This component is implemented as a set of event servers co operating with each other to provide a network wide event service. [Car98] describes four different event server topology implementations, namely centralised, hierarchical, acyclic peer to peer and generic peer to peer, as shown in Figure 7.2. Car98] states that each topology was tested for the flexibility and the scalability of the service and found that the ....

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A. Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Widearea Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, December 1998.

....object component integration for specific applications and can hardly be extended for integrating components in open contexts. Therefore, our event service integrates communication protocols (pull push) but also provides an event processing layer within a configurable environment. Filtering ([3, 7, 6, 4]) has been extended to the whole content of the event, providing a content based interaction between components. By making visible events content, it is possible to use it for setting up routing information, for evaluating the state of a set of data sources, for synchronizing the reactions of ....

A. Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service scalable to wide-area networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, December 1998.

....object component integration for specific applications and can hardly be extended for integrating components in open contexts. Therefore, our event service integrates communication protocols (pull push) but also provides an event processing layer within a configurable environment. Filtering ([5, 20, 14, 7]) has been extended to the whole content of the event, providing a content based interaction between components. By making visible events content, it is possible to use it for setting up routing information, for evaluating the state of a set of data sources, for synchronizing the reactions of ....

....tolerance, but 14 also applications nature (real time, database, Web based, etc. We are currently specifying a deployment model together with metrics to evaluate benefits of several possible architectures of event managers deployment. Efforts in this sense have been made in other works such as [5]. 5 Experiences This section introduces experiences in using our event service for providing active capabilities to a federated database system. Our experiences in defining and using active databases [9] allow us to state the following: ffl Active functionalities can be added to passive DBMS ....

A. Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service scalable to wide-area networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, December 1998.

....the supplier, as the data reside on the supplier s side, but other services could have that function as well (conceivable are active alerting services that search for information on supplier side) Observers can be triggered by the invoker or by the profile schedule. In connection with Carzaniga [1], we define that an object o matches an profile p as relation p o (3) Let O t i 1 ;t i be a set of objects that is affected by the state transition in database b in the time interval (t i 1 ; t i ] The clients which must be notified are C t i 1 ;t i = C (A t i 1 ;t i ) where A t i 1 ;t i = ....

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....and implemented to solve this problem [12] so we do not discuss this aspect further in the context of SIENA. In order to simplify the description of the algorithms we focus only on acyclic peer to peer architectures; algorithms for the general peer to peer architectures can be found elsewhere [5]. Peer Connection Setup A server E 1 connects to a server E 2 by sending a peer connect(E 1 ) request to E 2 . E 2 can either accept or refuse the connection. In case E 2 accepts E 1 as a peer, E 2 sends a confirmation message back to E 1 so that both servers add each other s address to their ....

....of a Factored Compound Subscription. of subpatterns that are eligible for delegation follows some intuitive criteria. For example, only contiguous subpatterns available from a single source can be grouped and delegated to that source. A complete discussion of these criteria is presented elsewhere [5]. In the example of Table 6, server 1 would group the first two filters a 1 a 1 and delegate the subpattern defined by the corresponding two subscriptions (f g) to server 2. Thus, it would send a subscription subscribe(E, s 1 ) with pattern integer attempts = 1 . to server 2, and ....

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....these simulations, we were able to characterize which topologies and algorithms are more sensitive to which behavioral factors in applications. The idea of content based networking is related to both distributed contentbased publish subscribe systems and network technology. In some of our works [6, 3], we analyze several technologies from these two areas and we classify them according to their architectures, which a#ects scalability, and to their service models. 3 Model of Content Based Networking At the physical architecture level, a content based network is identical to a traditional ....

....of the issues discussed so far is the issue of evaluating protocols and algorithms against their requirements of scalability, robustness, congestion control, and the like. We believe that simulation will be the primary evaluation and validation tool, and have used this technique in our own work [3, 6]. The di#culty is finding representative and credible workloads IX to drive the simulations. These workloads will likely derive from both existing applications, such as Napster or Gnutella, and from synthetic applications that can be argued as embodying the new demands on the communication ....

A. Carzaniga. Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks. PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, Dec. 1998.

....and unadvertisements cancel previous subscriptions and advertisements, respectively. These operations must be performed in the context of the covering relations so that the proper subscriptions and advertisements remain in place. The details of this are complex and are described elsewhere [2, 3]. 4. ARCHITECTURES AND PROCESSING STRATEGIES As shown in Figure 1, the implementation of Siena comprises a number of interconnected servers, 3 each serving some subset of the clients of the service. In effect, Siena is a wide area network of pattern matchers and routers overlaid atop some ....

....single notifications according to the advertised paths along which notifications will be propagated. For this reason, advertisement forwarding algorithms are necessary to implementtheupstream evaluation principle for event patterns. The interested reader is referred to our other publications [2, 3] for details on howwe apply these processing strategies to the different architectures. 5. ANALYSIS Consider two extremes of expressiveness. In a channel based model of event notification, notifications are fed into what amounts to a discrete communications pipe. Subscriptions are made by simply ....

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....and implemented to solve this problem [12] so we do not discuss this aspect further in the context of SIENA. 3 In order to simplify the description of the algorithms we focus only on acyclic peer to peer architectures; algorithms for the general peer to peer architectures can be found elsewhere [5]. Peer Connection Setup A server E 1 connects to a server E 2 by sending a peer connect(E 1 ) request to E 2 . E 2 can either accept or refuse the connection. In case E 2 accepts E 1 as a peer, E 2 sends a confirmation message back to E 1 so that both servers add each other s address to their ....

....of a Factored Compound Subscription. of subpatterns that are eligible for delegation follows some intuitive criteria. For example, only contiguous subpatterns available from a single source can be grouped and delegated to that source. A complete discussion of these criteria is presented elsewhere [5]. In the example of Table 6, server 1 would group the first two filters a 1 a 1 and delegate the subpattern defined by the corresponding two subscriptions (f g) to server 2. Thus, it would send a subscription subscribe(E, s 1 ) with pattern s 1 = string alarm = failed login integer ....

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