COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NODE DEVICE, NODE PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM

• US 20160087879A1
• Filed: 07/31/2015
• Published: 03/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: MATSUBARA, Daisuke, KASUGAI, Yasushi
• Application Number:
  US14/815,248
• Publication Number:
  US 20160087879A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/22 Alternate routing

Abstract

A communication system constituted by a plurality of nodes connected to each other via a network includes: a first node that receives a publish message for requesting for transmission of an object, from a publisher terminal; and a second node. Each of the nodes from the first node to the second node: has a storage unit in which first routing information is recorded; performs a first routing; and records, in the storage unit, an object ID of the publish message and second routing information. The communication system also includes a third node that receives a subscribe message for requesting for receipt of the object, from a subscriber terminal. Each of the nodes from the third node to the first node: performs a second routing; and records, in the storage unit, an object ID of the subscribe message, and third routing information.

Claims

1. A communication system which is constituted by a plurality of nodes connected to each other via a network, comprising:

a first node which is one of a plurality of the nodes used for the communication system, that receives a publish message for requesting for transmission of an object, from a publisher terminal;

a second node which is different from the first node of a plurality of the nodes,

wherein each of the nodes from the first node to the second node

has a storage unit of its own in which first routing information showing a nexthop node as a transfer destination of the publish message is recorded,

performs a first routing in which the publish message is transferred to the nexthop which is obtained from the first routing information, and

records, in the storage unit of its own, an object ID of the publish message transferred using the first routing, and second routing information in which an adjacent node having transferred the publish message to the node itself is determined as a nexthop; and

a third node which is different from the first node and the second node of a plurality of the nodes, that receives a subscribe message for requesting for receipt of the object, from a subscriber terminal,

wherein each of the nodes from the third node to the first node

performs a second routing in which the subscribe message is transferred to the nexthop which is obtained by searching the second routing information for a object ID of the subscribe message or to a pre-set default nexthop, and

records, in the storage unit of its own, the object ID of the subscribe message transferred using the second routing, and third routing information in which an adjacent node having transferred the subscribe message to the node itself is determined as a nexthop.

2. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the first node receives the publish message of the object from the publisher terminal one more time, and

wherein each of the nodes from the first node to the third node performs a third routing in which the publish message having been received one more time is transferred to a nexthop which is obtained by searching the third routing information for an object ID of the publish message having been received one more time.

3. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein, from among the nodes from the third node to the first node each of which performs the second routing, a node which has successfully obtained the object ID of the subscribe message from the second routing information discontinues the second routing.

4. The communication system according to claim 2,

wherein, from among the nodes from the third node to the first node each of which performs the third routing, a node which has searched the third routing information and has obtained a plurality of nexthops, copies and transfers the received publish message to each of a plurality of the obtained nexthops.

5. A node device used for a communication system which is constituted by a plurality of nodes connected to each other via a network, comprising:

a publish transfer table that associates an object ID of a publish message for requesting for transmission of an object, with a nexthop as a transfer destination toward a subscriber terminal of the publish message;

a storage unit that stores therein a subscribe transfer table which associates an object ID of a subscribe message for requesting for reception of the object, with a nexthop as a transfer destination toward a publisher terminal of the subscribe message;

a subscribe transfer table creation unit that stores, in the subscribe transfer table, an object ID of the received publish message, and an adjacent node which has transferred the publish message to itself, as a nexthop, in association with each other;

a publish transfer table search unit that searches the publish transfer table for an object ID of the publish message and identifies a nexthop to which the publish message is transferred;

a publish transfer table creation unit that stores, in the publish transfer table, an object ID of the received subscribe message, and an adjacent node which has transferred the subscribe message to itself, as a nexthop, in association with each other; and

a subscribe transfer table search unit that searches the subscribe transfer table for an object ID of the subscribe message and identifies a nexthop to which the subscribe message is transferred.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a node program, the node program for causing a computer to serve as the subscribe transfer table creation unit, the publish transfer table search unit, the publish transfer table creation unit, and the subscribe transfer table search unit of the node device according to claim 5.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a communication program used for a communication system which is constituted by a plurality of nodes connected to each other via a network, the communication program for causing a computer to make, by being loaded and executed by a plurality of the nodes:

a first node of a plurality of the nodes receive a publish message for requesting for transmission of an object, from a publisher terminal;

each of nodes from the first node to a second node which is different from the first node of a plurality of the nodes

record first routing information indicating a node as a nexthop which is a transfer destination of the publish message, in a storage unit of its own,

perform a first routing in which the publish message is transferred to the nexthop which is obtained from the first routing information, and

record an object ID of the publish message transferred using the first routing, and second routing information in which an adjacent node having transferred the publish message to the node itself is determined as a nexthop, in a storage unit of its own;

a third node which is different from the first and second nodes of a plurality of the nodes receive a subscribe message for requesting for reception of the object, from a subscriber terminal; and

each of the nodes from the third node to the first node to

perform a second routing in which the subscribe message is transferred to the nexthop obtained by the object ID of the subscribe message from the second routing information or a pre-set default nexthop, and

record, in a storage unit of its own, an object ID of the subscribe message transferred using the second routing, and third routing information in which an adjacent node having transferred the subscribe message to the node itself is determined as a nexthop.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium storing the communication program according to claim 7,

wherein the communication program causes the computer to make

the first node receive the publish message of the object from the publisher terminal one more time, and

each of the nodes from the first node to the third node perform a third routing in which the publish message having been received one more time is transferred to a nexthop which is obtained by searching the object ID of the publish message which has been received from the third routing information one more time.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium storing the communication program according to claim 7,

wherein the communication program causes the computer to make, from among the nodes from the third node to the first node each of which performs the second routing, a node which has successfully searched the object ID of the subscribe message from the second routing information, to discontinue the second routing.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium storing the communication program according to claim 8,

wherein the communication program causes the computer to make, from among the nodes from the third node to the first node each of which performs the third routing, a node which has searched the third routing information and has obtained a plurality of nexthops copy and transfer the received publish message to each of a plurality of the obtained nodes.