2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Consistent Rollback Protocols for Autonomic ASSISTANT Applications
Authors : Carlo Bertolli, Gabriele Mencagli, Marco Vanneschi
Published in: Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Nowadays, a central issue for applications executed on heterogeneous distributed platforms is represented by assuring that certain performance and reliability parameters are respected throughout the system execution. A typical solution is based on supporting application components with adaptation strategies, able to select at run-time the better component version to execute. It is worth noting that the efficacy of a reconfiguration may depend on the time spent in applying it: in fact, albeit a reconfiguration may lead to a better steady-state behavior, its application could induce a transient violation of a QoS constraint. In this paper we will show how consistent reconfiguration protocols can be derived for stream-based ASSISTANT applications, and we will characterize their costs in terms of proper performance models.