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Designing and Optimizing a Scalable CORBA Notification Service

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Douglas Schmidt,

Carlos O'RyanAuthors Info & Claims

OM '01: Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Optimization of middleware and distributed systems

Pages 196 - 204

https://doi.org/10.1145/384198.384224

Published: 01 August 2001 Publication History

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Many distributed applications require a scalable event-driven communication model that decouples suppliers from consumers and simultaneously supports advanced quality of service (QoS) properties and event filtering mechanisms. The CORBA Notification Service provides a publish/subscribe mechanism that is designed to support scalable event-driven communication by routing events efficiently between many suppliers and consumers, enforcing various QoS properties (such as reliability, priority, ordering, and timeliness), and filtering events at multiple points in a distributed system.This paper provides several contributions to research on scalable notification services. First, we present the CORBA Notification Service architecture and illustrate how it addresses limitations with the earlier CORBA Event Service. Second, we explain how we addressed key design challenges faced when implementing the Notification Service in TAO, which is our high-performance, real-time ORB. We discuss the optimizations used to improve the scalability of TAO's Notification Service. Finally, we present empirical results of the performance of our implementation.

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