VL-DSC: A Dynamic Service Composition Based Model for Virtual Laboratory Platform and Its Implementation

Author

Wang, Jianxin ; Zhang, Qinglong ; Sheng, Yu ; Chen, Songqiao ; Xie, Zhaohui

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Central South Univ., Changsha, China

fYear

2009

fDate

25-27 June 2009

Firstpage

520

Lastpage

526

Abstract

Web-based Virtual Laboratory is emerging as a promising teaching assistant tool for modern distance education and attracts many attentions from both of academia and industry. In this paper, a novel virtual laboratory platform based on dynamic service composition, which is named as VL-DSC, is presented. In this platform, experimental process can be customized by service virtualization. A domain-oriented service composition description language is designed to describe the relationship between heterogeneous virtual instruments. Furthermore, based on the description language, dynamic message routing is adopted to realize dynamic schedule and replacement of virtual instruments. VL-DSC can significantly improve the customizability and dynamic interoperability of virtual lab, which can be used to develop virtual lab easily and quickly.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; distance learning; laboratory techniques; virtual instrumentation; Web-based virtual laboratory; distance education; domain-oriented service composition; dynamic message routing; dynamic service composition; heterogeneous virtual instruments; service composition description language; service virtualization; teaching assistant tool; Computer architecture; Distance learning; Dynamic scheduling; Engines; Instruments; Java; Laboratories; Processor scheduling; Routing; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing and Communications, 2009. HPCC '09. 11th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4600-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3738-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPCC.2009.56

Filename

5167038