ABSTRACT
Middleware - Quo(S) Vadis?
Prof. Kurt Geihs, CS Department, University of Frankfurt, Germany;
currently visiting researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Over the past years middleware has been the major theme of our research.
First we present a short overview of our current middleware-related
research projects.
Then we concentrate on one of these projects which aims at the
integration of quality-of-service (QoS) management in distributed object
systems such as CORBA. We describe our generic QoS framework called MAQS,
that supports a wide range of QoS categories and mechanisms.
The QoS specification and negotiation components are discussed.
A framework prototype has been built using our own CORBA implementation
called MICO. It is shown how the microkernel design of MICO facilitates
the architectural extensions which are needed for QoS management.
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