Policy-based model-driven engineering of pervasive services and the associated OSS

Authors:
K. Yang;S. Ou;M. Azmoodeh;N. Georgalas
Affiliations:
-;-;-;-
Venue:
BT Technology Journal
Year:
2005

Citing 6
Cited 6

Next century challenges: data-centric networking for invisible computing: the Portolano project at the University of Washington

MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Router plugins: a software architecture for next-generation routers

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A Policy Language for a Pervasive Computing Environment

POLICY '03 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
The Parlay API — Allowing Third Party Application Providers Safe and Secure Access to Network Capabilities

BT Technology Journal
Providing architectural support for building context-aware applications

Providing architectural support for building context-aware applications
Using policies in highly configurable component-based NGOSS

BT Technology Journal

Model-based service discovery for future generation mobile systems

Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing
Policy-based service-driven dynamic planning of heterogeneous wireless networks

International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation
Context modelling and a context-aware framework for pervasive service creation: A model-driven approach

Pervasive and Mobile Computing
QoS-Aware Service Selection Algorithms for Pervasive Service Composition in Mobile Wireless Environments

Mobile Networks and Applications
A model driven integration architecture for ontology-based context modelling and context-aware application development

ECMDA-FA'06 Proceedings of the Second European conference on Model Driven Architecture: foundations and Applications
A multi-criteria network-aware service composition algorithm in wireless environments

Computer Communications

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper presents our work towards a fully functioning platform for pervasive service engineering in an operational support services (OSS) context for an ICT service provider. The focus of the paper lies in a proof-of-concept for a novel means to develop and execute pervasive services, with simplicity and maintainability as prime drivers. The essence of this approach is the novel integration of the policy-based management (PBM) techniques and the model-driven architecture (MDA) techniques for specifying pervasive services and their behaviour, together with auto-generation of middleware implementation and policy enablement. The presence of policies provides pervasive services with the high flexibility and adaptability needed for dealing with changing environments and resource availabilities, while the introduction of MDA for defining pervasive service information models fundamentally solves the information modelling puzzle of current policy-based approaches. Additionally, MDA's middleware-neutral feature benefits the smooth evolution of pervasive services as a piece of software artefact in the face of heterogeneous devices and platforms. A preliminary case study has demonstrated the practical feasibility and benefits of this approach. The case study revolves around an ICT service called TEANU -- transparent enterprise access for nomadic user. The service provides a means for nomadic users to maintain a secure access to their enterprise network in the presence of multiple access network providers with different service level guarantees.