Co-operative peer-to-peer systems for industrial middleware

With the ever-increasing emphasis on the importance of vertical integration for the fourth industrial revolution (Industrie 4.0), we contend that the largest potential lies in the replacement of single-purpose gateway-ing solutions with distributed gateway service bus (GSB) technologies. Within this paper, we primarily focus on the aspect of routing between variously grouped GSB components. We base our study on the premise that the most applicable technologies for such a scenario would be those of inter-system routing protocols from the domain of peer-to-peer (P2P) cooperative systems networking. We therefore summarize the basic principles governing such protocols and, using them, present a study that observes the conversion of a single system P2P networking protocol into an inter-system routing protocol. The final protocol is evaluated extensively using 50 Xen-based virtual machines deployed on 32-bit embedded devices and a 64-bit server.