Development And Evaluation Of A Scalable, Fault Tolerant Telecommunications System Using EJB And Related Technologies

Abstract

The objective of the research project is to investigate how Sun's Enterprise Java Bean technology (EJB) and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) could be used to produce a prototype Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) which will have the following attributes:(a) No single point of failure (b) Load sharing between machines in the cluster. (c) High availability. (d) Scalability. The production of the prototype demonstrates the benefits and cost savings, in terms of re-use of existing infrastructure, of useing the EJB architecture as a starting point for development of complex enterprise systems. We achieved this by producing a prototype with qualities as listed above. A basic performance evaluation of the prototype SMSC was then carried out and we document possible bottlenecks in the system along with some possible solutions. This project was funded and supported by Logica Mobile Networks