A HIERARCHICAL DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE FOR REAL-TIME AUCTIONS

Ilhem Abdelhedi Abdelmoula, Hella Kaffel Ben Ayed, Farouk Kamoun

2005

Abstract

This paper presents a new hierarchical distributed communication architecture, called AHS (Auction Handling System), based on clusters. This architecture uses the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channels and protocol facilities in order to support real-time auction applications (RTA). Coordination between distributed auction servers is needed to exchange and update some relevant auction information and to resolve the winning bid within a cluster. The problem is how to determine the best location of the auction server coordinator. For this purpose, we suggest the use of the Floyd-Warshall’s algorithm, which is a graph theory algorithm.

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Abdelhedi Abdelmoula I., Kaffel Ben Ayed H. and Kamoun F. (2005). A HIERARCHICAL DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE FOR REAL-TIME AUCTIONS . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-32-5, pages 5-15. DOI: 10.5220/0001418200050015


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@conference{icete05,
author={Ilhem Abdelhedi Abdelmoula and Hella Kaffel Ben Ayed and Farouk Kamoun},
title={A HIERARCHICAL DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE FOR REAL-TIME AUCTIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,},
year={2005},
pages={5-15},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001418200050015},
isbn={972-8865-32-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,
TI - A HIERARCHICAL DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE FOR REAL-TIME AUCTIONS
SN - 972-8865-32-5
AU - Abdelhedi Abdelmoula I.
AU - Kaffel Ben Ayed H.
AU - Kamoun F.
PY - 2005
SP - 5
EP - 15
DO - 10.5220/0001418200050015