Toward effective service composition for real-time SOA-based systems |
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Authors: | Hachem Moussa Tong Gao I-Ling Yen Farokh Bastani Jun-Jang Jeng |
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Affiliation: | (1) Computer Science Department, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, England, UK;(2) Computer Science Department, University of Durham, Durham, NC, USA |
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Abstract: | Many application domains are increasingly leveraging service-oriented architecture (SOA) techniques to facilitate rapid system
deployment. Many of these applications are time-critical and, hence, real-time assurance is an essential step in the service
composition process. However, there are gaps in existing service composition techniques for real-time systems. First, admission
control is an essential technique to assure the time bound for service execution, but most of the service composition techniques
for real-time systems do not take admission control into account. A service may be selected for a workflow during the composition
phase, but then during the grounding phase, the concrete service may not be able to admit the workload. Thus, the entire composition
process may have to be repeated. Second, communication time is an important factor in real-time SOA, but most of the existing
works do not consider how to obtain the communication latencies between services during the composition phase. It is clear
that maintaining a full table of communication latencies for all pairs of services is infeasible. Obtaining communication
latencies between candidate services during the composition phase can also be costly, since many candidate services may not
be used for grounding. Thus, some mechanism is needed for estimating the communication latency for composite services. In
this paper, we propose a three-phase composition approach to address the above issues. In this approach, we first use a highly
efficient but moderately accurate algorithm to eliminate most of the candidate compositions based on estimated communication
latencies and assured service response latency. Then, a more accurate timing prediction is performed on a small number of
selected compositions in the second phase based on confirmed admission and actual communication latency. In the third phase,
specific concrete services are selected for grounding, and admissions are actually performed. The approach is scalable and
can effectively achieve service composition for satisfying real-time requirements. Experimental studies show that the three-phase
approach does improve the effectiveness and time for service composition in SOA real-time systems. In order to support the
new composition approach, it is necessary to effectively specify the needed information. In this paper, we also present the
specification model for timing-related information and the extension of OWL-S to support this specification model. |
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