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.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
active networks, case study, event dissemination, multicasting, overlay networks, quality of service (QoS)