Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks

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de to Luciano Baresi, Gino Biondini, Fabiano Cattaneo, Thorna Humphries, Artur Klauser, Pier Luca Lanzi, Edoardo Marcora, Mark Maybee, Mattia Monga, Alessandro Orso, Gian Pietro Picco, Matteo Pradella, Giuseppe Ricci, Massimo Ricotti, Sergio Silva, Judith Stafford, Laura Vidal, Giovanni Vigna, ### and many others. Grazie di cuore a tutti. Milano, December 1998. Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Focus and contribution of the thesis ................ 2 1.2 Structure of the thesis . . ....................... 4 2 Background and New Challenges 5 2.1 Related technology . . . ....................... 7 2.1.1 Centralized event/message based environments . .... 7 2.1.2 Internet technology . . . . . . ................ 10 2.1.3 Distributed event-based infrastructures . . ........ 12 2.2 New challenges for Event-based technologies . . . ........ 15 2.2.1 Discussion and principles . . ................ 15 2.2.2 Goals: scalability