Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - The design of a flexible communications framework for next-generation middleware
AU - Kramp, T
AU - Coulson, G
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - The success of middleware platforms is leading to a number of challenges as the motivation grows to deploy middleware in ever more demanding application domains. This paper therefore introduces a flexible, object-oriented communications framework, called BOSSA NOVA, which can be integrated into middleware platforms to better support domains such as soft real-time, multimedia, and adaptive mobile systems. In particular, BOSSA NOVA aims at providing flexibility in terms of protocol structure and composition, protocol granularity, and concurrency/multiplexing structure. The use of reflective interfaces explicitly facilitates management and dynamic reconfiguration as well as Qos specification and negotiation together with associated resource management in protocol graphs. Qos-negotiation protocols and resource-management policies, however, in common with most areas of the framework, are open and non-prescribed although basic protocols and reusable base functionality are readily provided. For ease of use. BOSSA NOVA relies on only a small set of simple and consistently used abstractions which allow for efficient implementations.
AB - The success of middleware platforms is leading to a number of challenges as the motivation grows to deploy middleware in ever more demanding application domains. This paper therefore introduces a flexible, object-oriented communications framework, called BOSSA NOVA, which can be integrated into middleware platforms to better support domains such as soft real-time, multimedia, and adaptive mobile systems. In particular, BOSSA NOVA aims at providing flexibility in terms of protocol structure and composition, protocol granularity, and concurrency/multiplexing structure. The use of reflective interfaces explicitly facilitates management and dynamic reconfiguration as well as Qos specification and negotiation together with associated resource management in protocol graphs. Qos-negotiation protocols and resource-management policies, however, in common with most areas of the framework, are open and non-prescribed although basic protocols and reusable base functionality are readily provided. For ease of use. BOSSA NOVA relies on only a small set of simple and consistently used abstractions which allow for efficient implementations.
KW - PLATFORM
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 0-7695-0819-7
SP - 273
EP - 282
BT - DOA'00: International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications, Proceedings
A2 - Drew, Pamela
A2 - Meersman, Robert
A2 - Tari, Zahir
A2 - Zicari, Roberto
PB - IEEE Computer Society
CY - Los Alamitos
T2 - 2nd International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'00)
Y2 - 21 September 2000 through 23 September 2000
ER -