A complex event processing for large-scale M2M services and its performance evaluations

Abstract

This paper describes a scalable complex event processing (CEP) system and rule allocation algorithm for large-scale M2M services and presents the results of its performance evaluations. Platforms providing M2M services deal with various data from massive event sources in the real world. To realize these services, a scalable system is required. Our previous system determines efficient allocation of CEP rules based on a single key attribute type. However, it cannot maintain scalability in M2M situation because CEP rules are defined by various attribute types and there is no single key attribute, i.e. common attribute type among CEP rules. The challenging issue in the present work is how to maintain scalability where no common attribute type usable for rule allocation. The key idea in this paper is to allocate CEP rules based on different attribute types for each CEP rule instead of single key attribute type. We propose a rule allocation algorithm that determines the efficient allocation of CEP rules when the system needs processing a large number of events, a large number of CEP rules, and various types of events. Evaluation results show that the system with the proposed algorithm is scalable with many CEP Servers. We thus conclude that the proposed algorithm contributes to the realization of large-scale M2M services.