Distributed Feature Composition: A Virtual Architecture for Telecommunications Services

  • Authors:
  • Michael Jackson;Pamela Zave

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Labs—Research, Florham Park, NJ;AT&T Labs—Research, Florham Park, NJ

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Distributed Feature Composition (DFC) is a new technology for feature specification and composition, based on a virtual architecture offering benefits analogous to those of a pipe-and-filter architecture. In the DFC architecture, customer calls are processed by dynamically assembled configurations of filter-like components: each component implements an applicable feature, and communicates with its neighbors by featureless internal calls that are connected by the underlying architectural substrate.