DynPubSub: A Peer To Peer Overlay For Topic-Based Pub/Sub Systems Deployed at the Edge

Bouallegue, C., Gascon-Samson, J. (2020) DynPubSub: A Peer To Peer Overlay For Topic-Based Pub/Sub Systems Deployed at the Edge. Proceedings of the 21st International Middleware Conference Demos and Posters (Middleware 2020 Demos and Posters)
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Abstract: There are more and more IoT devices that produce and consume and ever increasing amount of data. Publish-subscribe (Pub/Sub) is a well known paradigm that simplifies the task of exchanging messages, as it decouples the communication between the entities that emit and consume messages. While traditionally deployed in a centralized cloud-based manner, the different components of a pub/sub system can be deployed directly onto the edge devices, in a peer-to-peer manner, to achieve the required low latency for most IoT applications. In this poster, we propose DynPubSub, a new peer-to-peer network overlay for topic based pub/sub systems deployed at the edge. DynPubSub provides fault tolerance and scalability, and aims at minimizing the latency while respecting the constraints of the edge devices and networks.