An Improvement of REM: A Replication Oriented Event-Based Middleware

Abstract

Existing publish-subscribe middlewares do not provide reliability guarantees about the event delivery, though the guarantees are necessary in an unstable communication environment. To provide the reliability guarantees, we have proposed a large-scale replication oriented event-based middleware, named "REM", over structured peer to peer network. However, the present REM cannot detect loss of events in some cases. In this paper, we present an improved design of REM which can detect and report failures of event delivery, and recover the lost events.