Salehi, Pejman (2012) A Model Based Framework for Service Availability Management. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
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High availability of services is an important requirement in several domains, including mission critical systems. The Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) is a consortium of telecommunications and computing companies that defines standard middleware solutions for high availability. Availability Management Framework (AMF) manages the high availability of services by coordinating their application components according to redundancy models. To protect these services, AMF requires a configuration, i.e. a representation of the organization of the logical entities composing an application under its control. AMF configuration design is error-prone and tedious if done manually, due to the complexity of the AMF domain. This PhD thesis explores the effective design and analysis of AMF configurations, proposing a model-based management framework that facilitates this process. We propose a domain-specific modeling language that captures AMF domain concepts, relationships, and constraints, facilitating the management of AMF configurations. We define this language by extending UML through its profiling mechanism, capturing the concepts of AMF configurations and the description of the software for which the configuration will be generated.
We introduce a new approach for the automatic generation of AMF configurations based on our UML profile using model transformation techniques. This approach consists of a set of transformations from the software description entities into AMF configurations while satisfying the requirements of the services to be provided as well as the constraints of the deployment infrastructure.
We also propose a third-party AMF configuration validation approach consisting of syntactical and semantic validations. Syntactical validation checks the well-formedness of third-party configurations by validating them against AMF standard specification requirements captured in our UML profile. Semantic validation focuses on ensuring the runtime protection of services at configuration time (the SI-Protection problem). SI-Protection has combinatorial aspects and results in an NP-hard problem for most redundancy models, which we have tackled by devising a heuristic-based method, overcoming its complexity.
We present proofs of concepts by using different available technologies: IBM Rational Software Architect (RSA) for implementing our UML profiles, Eclipse environment for developing a prototype tool for validating third-party configurations, and Atlas Transformation Language (ATL) for developing a prototype implementation of our model-based configuration generation approach.
| Divisions: | Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
| Authors: | Salehi, Pejman |
| Institution: | Concordia University |
| Degree Name: | Ph. D. |
| Program: | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Date: | April 2012 |
| Thesis Supervisor(s): | Khendek, Ferhat and Hamou-Lhadj, Abdelwahab |
| Keywords: | Model Driven Approach, Configuration Generation, Model Transformation, ATL, Domain-specific modeling languages, UML profiles, High-Availability, Availability Management Framework Standard, Service Availability Forum. |
| ID Code: | 974079 |
| Deposited By: | PEJMAN SALEHI |
| Deposited On: | 20 Jun 2012 19:30 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2018 17:37 |
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