Service Abstractions With Fault Virtualization for Distributed Network Infrastructures

  • Authors:
  • Kaliappa Ravindran;Jun Wu;Arun Adiththan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DS-RT '13 Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM 17th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The paper deals with service abstractions that allowmanaging the dependability features of networked application systems.Component-level faults in the infrastructure are mapped ontodegradations in the service quality space. Fault recovery mechanismsin a service-layer algorithm, if any, purport to maintain either thesame level of service as in the no-fault case or a reduced level ofservice proportionate to the fault severity. Treating the occurrenceof component faults as a normal case rather than as an exception, avirtualization mechanism provides a systematic mapping of faultsonto canonical service quality spaces in a measurable way (e.g.,service availability and agility). Our paper describes the genericmechanisms and programming interfaces in the virtualization layerto manage the infrastructure in a flexible way that allows attaining anoptimal service quality. Such service layer abstractions are useful forapplications to infuse adaptive fault-tolerance and quality assurance.