Adaptive runtime fault management for service instances in component-based software applications

Author

Su, R. ; Chaudron, M.R.V. ; Lukkien, J.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol.

Volume

1

Issue

1

fYear

2007

fDate

2/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

28

Abstract

The Trust4All project aims to define an open, component-based framework for the middleware layer in high-volume embedded appliances that enables robust and reliable operation, upgrading and extension. To improve the availability of each individual application in a Trust4All system, a runtime configurable fault management mechanism (FMM) is proposed, which detects deviations from given service specifications by intercepting interface calls. When repair is necessary, FMM picks a repair action that incurs the best tradeoff between the success rate and the cost of repair. Considering that it is rather difficult to obtain sufficient information about third party components during their early stage of usage, FMM is designed to be able to accumulate knowledge and adapts its capability accordingly

Keywords

adaptive systems; embedded systems; middleware; object-oriented programming; open systems; software fault tolerance; Trust4All project; adaptive runtime fault management; component-based software; high-volume embedded appliances; knowledge accumulation; middleware; open component-based framework; service instances;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IET

Publisher

iet

ISSN

1751-8806

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/iet-sen:20060047

Filename

4124010