A Management Infrastructure for Mobile/Embedded XML Web Services

Author

Tosic, Vladmir ; Lutfiyya, Hanan ; Tang, Yazhe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Western Ontario Univ., London, Ont.

fYear

2006

fDate

3-7 April 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The management of extensible markup language (XML) Web services executing in mobile and/or embedded environments poses new challenges that result from the limited availability of computing resources and from the need for characteristic management activities, such as handling context sensitivity. This paper briefly describes management requirements for and design of our management infrastructure for monitoring of mobile/embedded Web services. Its architecture is based on extending a SOAP engine with management modules, an approach adopted by several existing tools for monitoring non-mobile/non-embedded Web services. Apart for modules for management of non-mobile/non-embedded Web services, our infrastructure contains additional support for handling context sensitivity, disruptions in quality of service (QoS), and intermittent connectivity. We have been implementing the proof-of-concept prototype of this infrastructure as an extension of the Web service offerings infrastructure (WSOI)

Keywords

Internet; XML; computer network management; mobile computing; quality of service; SOAP engine; Web service offerings infrastructure; characteristic management activities; computing resources; context sensitivity handling; embedded XML Web service; extensible markup language; intermittent connectivity; management infrastructure; management modules; mobile XML Web service; proof-of-concept prototype; quality of service; Availability; Context-aware services; Embedded computing; Environmental management; Mobile computing; Monitoring; Quality of service; Resource management; Web services; XML; Web service; application management; context management; mobile computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2006. NOMS 2006. 10th IEEE/IFIP

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1542-1201

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0142-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NOMS.2006.1687634

Filename

1687634