Quality of service in middleware and applications: a model-driven approach

@inproceedings{citeulike:1939934, abstract = {Quality of service (QoS) management has become an important requirement for middleware platforms and distributed applications. Early QoS engineering attempts focused on single-category extensions to standard middleware. In recent years generic middleware frameworks have been proposed in order to facilitate multicategory QoS management. Our experience with such a framework has revealed that QoS management cannot be shielded from the applications. Applications need to be designed in a QoS-aware manner and application QoS requirements need to be translated into appropriate middleware extensions. Therefore we propose a comprehensive, model-driven development process for QoS-enabled distributed applications on top of QoS-enhanced middleware platforms. Our approach builds on OMG's Model-Driven Architecture (MDA). We demonstrate the mapping from the platform-independent to the platform-specific model, and we show how the design approach is applied targeting a .NET-based QoS-enabled middleware.}, author = {Weis, T. and Ulbrich, A. and Geihs, K. and Becker, C. }, booktitle = {Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2004. EDOC 2004. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International}, citeulike-article-id = {1939934}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EDOC.2004.1342513}, journal = {Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2004. EDOC 2004. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International}, keywords = {middleware, quality}, pages = {160--171}, posted-at = {2008-07-23 23:38:00}, priority = {3}, title = {Quality of service in middleware and applications: a model-driven approach}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EDOC.2004.1342513}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1939934 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1939934 TI - Quality of service in middleware and applications: a model-driven approach T2 - Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2004. EDOC 2004. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International JF - Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2004. EDOC 2004. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International SP - 160 EP - 171 N2 - Quality of service (QoS) management has become an important requirement for middleware platforms and distributed applications. Early QoS engineering attempts focused on single-category extensions to standard middleware. In recent years generic middleware frameworks have been proposed in order to facilitate multicategory QoS management. Our experience with such a framework has revealed that QoS management cannot be shielded from the applications. Applications need to be designed in a QoS-aware manner and application QoS requirements need to be translated into appropriate middleware extensions. Therefore we propose a comprehensive, model-driven development process for QoS-enabled distributed applications on top of QoS-enhanced middleware platforms. Our approach builds on OMG's Model-Driven Architecture (MDA). We demonstrate the mapping from the platform-independent to the platform-specific model, and we show how the design approach is applied targeting a .NET-based QoS-enabled middleware. KW - middleware KW - quality AU - Weis, T AU - Ulbrich, A AU - Geihs, K AU - Becker, C PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EDOC.2004.1342513 ER -