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May 2, 2022
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Automatic Evaluation and Comparison of Pub/Sub Systems Performance Improvements

Publicated to:Journal Of Web Engineering. 21 (4): 1055-1079 - 2022-01-01 21(4), DOI: 10.13052/jwe1540-9589.2144

Authors: Ramperez, Victor; Soriano, Javier; Lizcano, David; Miguel, Carlos

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Madrid Open Univ UDIMA, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid UPM, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

Event-driven architectures are becoming more prevalent recently in multiple technological paradigms, especially in web applications, with message brokers being the cornerstone of these architectures. One of the most relevant implementations of these message brokers are content-based publish/subscribe systems. The performance of these systems is a critical factor for web engineering, since the web applications they support need to be reactive despite increases and fluctuations in workloads. However, an obstacle to the research of these systems is the lack of real and publicly available workloads, due to the privacy issue involved in disclosing the interests (subscriptions) of users and other commercial interests of the companies. In this paper we present a parameterizable automated system designed to syntactically translate workloads from different content-based publish/subscribe systems as a means to increase the availability of public workloads to solve the aforementioned problem. As a case study, we describe the evolution of a context-aware content-based publish/subscribe system (i.e. E-SilboPS) designed by the authors, which improves up to 5 times the performance of its previous version by reaching the maximum throughput limited by the physical resources of the hardware where it is deployed, as demonstrated by the conducted quantitative evaluation. Then, we validate the utility of the proposed automated workload generation system by using it to make the performance comparison between this new version E-SilboPS and one of the most cited publish/subscribe systems called PADRES, through a real trace of a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) generated by the latter.

Keywords

Content-basedElasticityPublish/subscribeWorkload generator

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Journal Of Web Engineering, and although the journal is classified in the quartile Q4 (Agencia WoS (JCR)), its regional focus and specialization in Computer Science, Software Engineering, give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-07-25:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 2

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-25:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 7 (PlumX).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/87642/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 71
  • Downloads: 28

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (RAMPEREZ MARTIN, VICTOR) and Last Author (MIGUEL NIETO, CARLOS).