A case study on event dissemination in an active overlay network environment

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a case study of the design and development of a group-conferencing tool suite, built on top of an overlay network based event dissemination framework, which is extensible via quality of service template plug-ins. We explain, for each of the tools, how the framework built-in conveniences were explored to create simple but effective distributed solutions, backed by the appropriate quality of service templates, whose design we also discuss.

Agile Software Development Quality Assurance

“…Numerous researchers have already started to model various classes of software using their event-driven nature. For example, Welsh, Culler, and Brewer (2001) have modeled Web applications as a network of event-driven stages connected by queues; Duarte, Martins, Domingos, and Preguia (2003) have described an extensible network based event dissemination framework; Gu and Nahrstedt (2001) have presented an event-driven middleware framework; Cheong, Liebman, Liu, and Zhao (2003) have presented a model for event-driven embedded systems; Sliwa (2003) has described how event-driven architectures may be used to develop complex component-based systems; Holzmann and Smith (1999) have modeled device drivers as event-driven systems; and Carloganu and Raguideau (2002) have described an eventdriven simulation system. Researchers need to extend the ideas presented in this chapter to the general class of event-driven software.…”