Harmony: Holistic messaging middleware for event-driven systems

P. Dube N. Halim K. Karenos M. Kim Z. Liu S. Parthasarathy D. Pendarakis H. Yang In this paper, we present Harmony, a holistic messaging middleware for distributed, event-driven systems. Harmony supports various communication paradigms and heterogeneous networks. The key novelty of Harmony is the unified provision of endto-end quality of service, security, and resiliency, which shields the applications from the underlying network dynamics, failures, and security configurations. We describe the Harmony architecture in the context of cyber-physical business applications and elaborate on the design of its critical system components, including routing, security, and mobility support.