RTFM: Publish/Subscribe Internetworking Architecture

Abstract

We present a packet switched inter-networking paradigm different from the existing ones in that we argue for publish/subscribe (pub/sub) based networking architecture. The key idea of the paradigm is to distribute control over data reception from network endpoints to the network itself, and combine this with the way routing and forwarding is performed. In this paper, we outline the argumentation for the new paradigm and discuss its possibilities and challenges. We demonstrate the concept by presenting a prototype implementation and highlighting some lessons learned from local-area pub/sub networking.