A Study of Publish/Subscribe Systems for Real-Time Grid Monitoring
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Huang, Chenxi; Hobson, Peter R.; Taylor, Gareth A.; Kyberd, Paul
- Source
- 2007 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2007. IPDPS 2007. IEEE International. :1-8 Mar, 2007
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Real time systems
Monitoring
Instruments
Power grids
Grid computing
Standards development
Standards publication
Middleware
Computer architecture
Testing
monitoring
real time systems
distributed computing
Grid Computing
publish/subscribe systems
- Language
- ISSN
- 1530-2075
Monitoring and controlling a large number of geographically distributed scientific instruments is a challenging task. Some operations on these instruments require real-time (or quasi real-time) response which make it even more difficult. In this paper, we describe the requirements of distributed monitoring for a possible future Electrical Power Grid based on real-time extensions to Grid computing. We examine several standards and publish/subscribe middleware candidates, some of which were specially designed and developed for Grid monitoring. We analyze their architecture and functionality, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages. We report on a series of tests to measure their real-time performance and scalability.