The publish/subscribe paradigm is gaining attention for the development of several
applications in wide area networks (WANs) due to its intrinsic time, space, and …

Federating mission critical systems over wide-area networks still represents a challenging
issue. For example, it is hard to assure both reliability and timeliness in a hostile …

Efficient and dependable communication is a highly relevant aspect for Internet of Things
(IoT) systems in which tiny sensors, actuators, wearables, or other smart devices exchange …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks can offer benefits to distributed content-based
publish/subscribe data dissemination systems. In particular, since a P2P network's …

Just as packet switched networks constituted a major breakthrough in our perception of the
information exchange in computer networks so have the decoupling properties of …

The publish/subscribe communication paradigm provides many-to-many communication. It
simplifies the construction of robust applications and the extension of existing applications …

Modern large-scale mission-critical systems demand efficient and robust multi-point data
dissemination infrastructures. Since such infrastructures have to exhibit good performance …

Many publish/subscribe systems are based on a tree topology as their message
dissemination overlay. However, in trees, even a single broker failure can cause delivery …

Distributed content-based publish-subscribe middleware provides the necessary
decoupling, flexibility, expressiveness, and scalability required by modern distributed …

When it comes to reliability in distributed publish/subscribe systems, there are two main
categories of systems: reliable systems and best-effort systems. The former category gives …