Automatic generation of fault-tolerant CORBA-services

Polze, Andreas; Schwarz, J.; Malek, Miroslaw

doi:10.1109/tools.2000.868972

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“…A number of techniques for making existing systems fault tolerant [58,115,139] are related to our approach. GRAFT [139] automatically specializes middleware for fault-tolerance.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effective fusion and separation of distribution, fault-tolerance, and energy-efficiency concerns

Kwon

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 Companion Publication for Conference on Systems, Programming, &Amp; Applications: Software for Humanity

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As software applications are becoming increasingly distributed and mobile, their design and implementation are characterized by distributed software architectures, possibility of faults, and the need for energy awareness. Thus, software developers should be able to simultaneously reason about and handle the concerns of distribution, fault-tolerance, and energy-efficiency. Being closely intertwined, these concerns can introduce significant complexity into the design and implementation of modern software. In other words, to develop reliable and energy-efficient applications, software developers must understand how distribution, fault-tolerance, and energy-efficiency interplay with each other and how to implement these concerns while keeping the complexity in check.This dissertation addresses five technical issues that stand on the way of engineering reliable and energy-efficient software: (1) how can developers select and parameterize middleware to achieve the requisite levels of performance, reliability, and energy-efficiency? (2) how can one streamline the process of implementing and reusing fault tolerance functionality in distributed applications? (3) can automated techniques be developed to help transition centralized applications to using cloud-based services efficiently and reliably? (4) how can one leverage cloud-based resources to improve the energy-efficiency of mobile applications? (5) how can middleware be adapted to improve the energy-efficiency of distributed mobile applications operated over heterogeneous mobile networks?To address these issues, this research studies the concerns of distribution, fault-tolerance, and energy-efficiency as well as their interaction. It also develops novel approaches, techniques, and tools that effectively fuse and separate these concerns as required by particular software development scenarios. The specific innovations include (1) a systematic assessment of the performance, conciseness, complexity, reliability, and energy consumption of middleware mechanisms for accessing remote functionality, (2) a declarative approach to hardening distributed applications with resiliency against partial failure, (3) cloud refactoring, a set of automated program transformations for transitioning to using cloud-based services efficiently and reliably, (4) a cloud offloading approach that improves the energy-efficiency of mobile applications without compromising their reliability, (5)

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“…A number of techniques for making existing systems fault tolerant [58,115,139] are related to our approach. GRAFT [139] automatically specializes middleware for fault-tolerance.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A number of techniques for making existing systems fault tolerant [58,115,82] are related to our approach. JReplica [58] expresses via AOP how adaptable fault tolerance can be added through replication.…”

Section: Fault-tolerant Middlewarementioning

confidence: 99%

Effective fusion and separation of distribution, fault-tolerance, and energy-efficiency concerns

Kwon

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 Companion Publication for Conference on Systems, Programming, &Amp; Applications: Software for Humanity

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“…b) Fault-Tolerant Middleware: A number of techniques for making existing systems fault tolerant [12], [23], [16] are related to our approach. JReplica [12] expresses via AOP how adaptable fault tolerance can be added through replication.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…JReplica [12] expresses via AOP how adaptable fault tolerance can be added through replication. Reference [23] describes how fault tolerance can be added to CORBA components by automatically instantiating distributed replicated components. DR-OSGi [16] is a component framework to harden distributed service-oriented applications against network volatility.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A declarative approach to hardening services against QoS vulnerabilities

Kwon

Tilevich

2011

2011 International Workshop on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems

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Abstract-The Quality of Service (QoS) in a distributed service-oriented application can be negatively affected by a variety of factors. Network volatility, hostile exploits, poor service management, all can prevent a service-oriented application from delivering its functionality to the user. This paper puts forward a novel approach to improving the reliability, security, and availability of service-oriented applications. To counter service vulnerabilities, a special service detects vulnerabilities as they emerge at runtime, and then hardens the applications by dynamically deploying special components. The novelty of our approach lies in using a declarative framework to express both vulnerabilities and hardening strategies in a domain-specific language, independent of the service infrastructure in place. Thus, our approach will make it possible to harden serviceoriented applications in a disciplined and systematic fashion.

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“…Electra extends the CORBA specification and provides group communication mechanisms, reliable multicasts, and object replication. The Electra-ORB uses services from the underlying ISIS [3] and HORUS [17] systems. Orbix+Isis [6] works also on top of ISIS [3] .…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%