Title

A framework for network monitoring and performance based routing in distributed middleware systems

Date of Award

12-2006

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Advisor(s)

Geoffrey C. Fox

Keywords

Network monitoring, Routing, Middleware

Subject Categories

Computer Sciences

Abstract

The Internet is presently being used to support increasingly complex interaction models as a result of more and more applications, services and frameworks becoming network centric. Efficient utilization of network and networked-resources is of paramount importance. Network performance gathering is a precursor to any scheme that seeks to provide adaptive routing capabilities for interactions. Furthermore, hardware based performance based routing solutions are hard to manage since they require a knowledge about the underlying hardware structure of the network, as well as access privileges to the network related hardware devices. In this thesis we present de-centralized, scalable, and hardware independent performance based dynamic routing system which consists of three parts; performance monitoring, aggregation and dynamic routing. We present a network performance aggregation framework that is extensible and appropriate for distributed messaging systems that span multiple realms, disparate communication protocols and support different applications. We propose using publish/subscribe messaging scheme for efficient propagation of monitored performance values in the network system. We present the test results regarding the difference aspects of our system for different network settings.

Access

Surface provides description only. Full text is available to ProQuest subscribers. Ask your Librarian for assistance.

http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1276406681&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3739&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Share

COinS