Research Article
Developing, Simulating, and Deploying Peer-to-Peer Systems using the Kompics Component Model
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1621890.1621911, author={Cosmin Arad and Jim Dowling and Seif Haridi}, title={Developing, Simulating, and Deploying Peer-to-Peer Systems using the Kompics Component Model}, proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={COMSWARE}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={component model software architecture event-based sys- tems peer-to-peer discrete-event simulation}, doi={10.1145/1621890.1621911} }- Cosmin Arad
Jim Dowling
Seif Haridi
Year: 2010
Developing, Simulating, and Deploying Peer-to-Peer Systems using the Kompics Component Model
COMSWARE
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1621890.1621911
Abstract
Currently, the development of overlay network systems typ- ically produces two software artifacts: a simulator to model key protocols and a production system for a WAN environ- ment. However, this methodology requires the maintenance of two implementations, as well as adding both development overhead and the potential for errors, through divergence in the di®erent code bases. This paper describes how our message-passing component model, called Kompics, is used to build overlay network systems using a P2P component framework, where the same implementation can be simu- lated or deployed in a production environment. Kompics enables two di®erent modes of simulation: deterministic sim- ulation for reproducible debugging, and emulation mode for stress-testing systems. We used our P2P component frame- work to build and evaluate overlay systems, and we show how our model lowers the programming barrier for simulat- ing and deploying overlay network systems.
