High-Level Design

This is the High-Level Design for ANet. It presents a non-technical view of the different components of ANet, how they work, how they interact with each other and how they will be implemented.

"daemon.png" is a figure that summarizes the high-level structure of the ANet daemon (Original Dia document: daemon.dia).

Run-Time Wrapper: Manages the creation, destruction and the communication of the different modules of ANet. Makes an abstraction of memory and file management. Maitains configuration files.
Client Connection Modules: Communication bridge between the ANet daemon and the clients.
Data Transformation Modules: Transform some data.
Client SDK: Group of libraries to simplify the process of building clients for ANet.
Cluster Group Modules: Define data duplication between different clusters.
Cluster Filter Modules: Define data filtering for a cluster.
ANet Core: Does the actual data duplication within a cluster. Contains the query, static data and TWDT modules.
Handshaking Protocol Modules: Define what and how connections should be made and manage resumed connections.
Packet Protocol Modules: Define the way the data will be streamed between two nodes.
Connection Protocol Modules: Define how network connections, from a low-level point of view, should be made between two nodes.
Bandwidth Manager Module: Monitors the network connections to maintain bandwidth statistics.
Document Type Definition (DTD): This is the DTD file for the ANet configuration files.