Introduction to Protocols for Realtime Data Sharing. Deepti Nagarkar

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1 Introduction to Protocols for Realtime Data Sharing Deepti Nagarkar

2 Real Time Systems What are Real time systems? Realtime systems are those which must process data and respond immediately to avoid failure Examples of real time systems Mission critical systems like missiles, rockets Over-temperature monitor in nuclear power station Health Devices like blood flow monitors

3 Realtime Systems : Requirements and Protocols Requirements of RTS Fast and immediate response Accuracy Reliable Fail safe Commonly used and conventional protocols are not really designed to meet the above requirements Different Protocols and Standards created for satisfying requirements of RTS DDS : Data Distribution Service STOMP : Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol AMQP : Advanced Message Queuing Protocol

4 Data Distribution Service Standard defined by Object Management Group(OMG) First Open international standard addressing publish/subscribe communication for realtime systems Characteristics- Portable Interoperable Flexible and Scalable Simple Publish/Subscriber API Fine Control over Quality of Service (QoS) Params Low Latency and assured Delivery Uses Multicast and dynamic discovery Used in Mission Critical Applications like Telescopes Missile Systems Defense and Aerospace Applications

5 Basics of DDS Publisher Application DomainParticipant Topic QoS Subscriber Application DomainParticipant Publisher Subscriber DataWriter write() x QoS QoS Basic QoS Values Reliable Durable LatencyBudget DataReader Listener ondataavailabl x e() QoS QoS QoS QoS

6 Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol STOMP is a simple test-based wire protocol Platform Independent and interoperable Clustering for scalability and reliability Frame based similar to HTTP Lightweight and simple Can be combined with any transport protocol, in practice usually implemented over TCP Supports Scripting Languages like Ruby, Python & Perl

7 Basics of STOMP Frame refers to data packets transmitted Stomp frames always start with a Stomp command (for e.g. SEND) Publishing App STOMP MESSAGE FRAME STOMP Web Layer STOMP Broker Destinatio n App STOMP MESSAGE FRAME

8 Advanced Message Queuing Protocol Open Standard Application Layer Protocol Interoperability, any two brokers of same version can communicate Supports Peer-to-peer and publish/subscribe Features- Message Orientation Message Queuing Message Routing Message Delivery Guarantees like at-most-once (each message is delivered once or never) at-least-once (each message is certain to be delivered, but may do so multiple times) exactly-once (message will certainly arrive and only once)

9 Basics of AMQP AMQP BASED BROKER Publisher publish Exchange r o u t e s Consumer consumes Queue

10 Enterprise Messaging v/s Realtime Messaging Standard messaging in Enterprises messaging volume is huge However, this is distributed and broadcast messages are few At any given point in time message load is few tens and at peak a few hundreds per second Standard systems like IBM MQ can handle this Realtime messaging Messaging volume is huge Typically load is hundreds of thousand messages per second Low latency and reliability is desired Standard enterprise messaging applications fail in front of such huge load and stringent constraints

11 Note :Tests carried out on CentOS Server Grade machines. These are not results from vendor sites. The figures are averaged out to give an overview. Comparison Chart Performance Parameters/System DDS AMQP STOMP Throughput(message size <1024 bytes) msgs/sec Throughput for Higher message sizes(>1024 bytes) msgs/sec Reliability Reliable Reliable Reliable Latency(milliseconds) Scalability- number of publishers and subscribers Scalability - number of publishers and subscribers (throttled to about 1000msg/sec)

12 Performance Comparison Keys STOMP-based products tend to have higher jitter. The latency of some messages is high DDS based systems tend to have higher message loss when sub:pub ratio is high DDS systems have fine granular control with specific QoS policies AMQP systems are more scalable DDS and AMQP throughputs are more or less constant for different message sizes

13 Other Realtime Messaging Solutions Other than Opensource solutions, commercially available solutions address the needs of realtime messaging as well Listing a few for reference IBM Low Latency Queue TIBCO messaging appliance Informatica 29West

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