Event-Based System Architecture in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)

The publish/subscribe paradigm (Muhl, Fiege, & Pietzuch, 2006) communicates on the basis of either the message content or the message source being of interest to destinations – as opposed to the source specifying the recipient(s). P/S systems can be considered to be a form of event-based systems, in the sense that the information injected to and propagated through the system can be treated as events. A unit in the system can act either/both as information producers (publishers) or/and consumers (subscribers). Subscribers declare their interests via subscriptions to certain events, most commonly specified by the content or the topic of the events (with different expressive power), and publishers produce events of information to the system. The event routing mechanism implemented in the P/S system (usually middleware) aBsTRaCT