[jira] [Commented] (REEF-362) Implement a Wake Transport using HTTP

["Chanaka Balasooriya (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Chanaka Balasooriya commented on REEF-362:
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Hi,
I am Chanaka Balasooriya, final year undergraduate at University of Moratuwa,Sri Lanka. I've been working on Transport and similar technologies such as NIO, Pass-through and Apache Netty library during my internship. So this project seems more interesting to me for GSoC-2017 and I would like to know more about this. Could you please explain little bit more about what we have to do in this project? 
Thanks,

> Implement a Wake Transport using HTTP
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: REEF-362
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/REEF-362
>             Project: REEF
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Wake, Wake.NET
>            Reporter: Markus Weimer
>              Labels: GSoC, gsoc2017
>
> Wake currently uses TCP connections for its messages. This is fast and efficient, but provides challenges in some network environments. Also, it is considerable work to support authentication and encryption.
> We could provide HTTP(S) as an alternative protocol for Wake. This transport will likely be less efficient than the current path, but gain in security. And for the relatively small messages used by the REEF control flow, the trade-off is likely worth it.



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