Abstract
The widespread adoption of the Internet of Things requires a robust and transparent communication middleware. Such a middleware was provided by Vanneste et al. in the Distributed Uniform STreaming (DUST) framework, increasing the transparency and reducing the complexity of writing distributed software. We expand on the DUST concept, improving the transparency further and adding message pre- and post-processing. This allows for easy configuration, and using a coordination mechanism, this can even cause automatic software communication optimization. We first define the architecture of the proposed improvements, and validate this on the requirements of distributed systems. We then validate this architecture by building a compression and encryption message processor, and define their models for a specific architecture.
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This work was performed within the SARWS (Real-Time Location-Aware Road Weather Services composed from Multi-Modal Data [10]) Celtic-Next project. The Flemish project was realised with the financial support of Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO, project no. HBC.2017.0999). This research received funding from the Flemish Government (AI Research Program).
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Eyckerman, R., Huybrechts, T., Van den Langenbergh, R., Casteels, W., Mercelis, S., Hellinckx, P. (2021). Towards the Generalization of Distributed Software Communication. In: Barolli, L., Takizawa, M., Yoshihisa, T., Amato, F., Ikeda, M. (eds) Advances on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing. 3PGCIC 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 158. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61105-7_26
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