TY - JOUR
T1 - Adaptare: Supporting automatic and dependable adaptation in dynamic environments
AU - Dixit, Monica
AU - Casimiro, Antonio
AU - Lollini, Paolo
AU - Bondavalli, Andrea
AU - Verissimo, Paulo
N1 - Generated from Scopus record by KAUST IRTS on 2021-03-16
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - Distributed protocols executing in uncertain environments, like the Internet or ambient computing systems, should dynamically adapt to environment changes in order to preserve Quality of Service (QoS). In earlier work, it was shown that QoS adaptation should be dependable, if correctness of protocol properties is to be maintained. More recently, some ideas concerning specific strategies and methodologies for improving QoS adaptation have been proposed. In this article we describe Adaptare, a complete framework for dependable QoS adaptation. We assume that during its lifetime, a system alternates periods where its temporal behavior is well characterized, with transition periods during which a variation of the environment conditions occurs. Our method is based on the following: if the environment is generically characterized in analytical terms, and we can detect the alternation of these stable and transient phases, we can improve the effectiveness and dependability of QoS adaptation. To prove our point we provide detailed evaluation results of the proposed solutions. Our evaluation is based on synthetic data flows generated from probabilistic distributions, as well as on real data traces collected in various Internet-based environments. We compare our solution with other approaches and we show that Adaptare, albeit more complex, is very effective, allowing protocols to adapt to the available resources in a dependable way. © 2012 ACM.
AB - Distributed protocols executing in uncertain environments, like the Internet or ambient computing systems, should dynamically adapt to environment changes in order to preserve Quality of Service (QoS). In earlier work, it was shown that QoS adaptation should be dependable, if correctness of protocol properties is to be maintained. More recently, some ideas concerning specific strategies and methodologies for improving QoS adaptation have been proposed. In this article we describe Adaptare, a complete framework for dependable QoS adaptation. We assume that during its lifetime, a system alternates periods where its temporal behavior is well characterized, with transition periods during which a variation of the environment conditions occurs. Our method is based on the following: if the environment is generically characterized in analytical terms, and we can detect the alternation of these stable and transient phases, we can improve the effectiveness and dependability of QoS adaptation. To prove our point we provide detailed evaluation results of the proposed solutions. Our evaluation is based on synthetic data flows generated from probabilistic distributions, as well as on real data traces collected in various Internet-based environments. We compare our solution with other approaches and we show that Adaptare, albeit more complex, is very effective, allowing protocols to adapt to the available resources in a dependable way. © 2012 ACM.
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2240166.2240168
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864829073&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2240166.2240168
DO - 10.1145/2240166.2240168
M3 - Article
SN - 1556-4703
VL - 7
JO - ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
JF - ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
IS - 2
ER -