MIDDLEWARE

This paper examines the feasibility of dynamic rescheduling techniques for effectively utilizing compute resources within a data center. Our work is motivated by practical concerns of Intel Distributed Computing Platform (IDCP), an Internet-scale data ...

Emerging clouds promise enterprises the ability to increase or decrease their resource allocation on demand using virtual machine resizing and migration. These dynamic reconfiguration actions lead to performance impact during the reconfiguration ...

The increasing popularity of system virtualization in datacenters introduces the need for self-scaling of the management layer to cope with the increasing demands of the management workload. This paper studies the problem of self-scaling in datacenter ...

We describe a middleware service and supporting methodology we have developed to facilitate runtime assessment of information assurance (IA) properties. The methodology structures the IA requirements of mission stakeholders along four axes, organizes ...

This paper addresses the problem of control plane integration for management and control of cloud services. Unlike data plane integration, which ensures that services can exchange data during operation, control plane integration ensures proper ...

XML processing is at the core of many middleware systems. In recent years XML databases have become widely available. This article identifies three common XML processing use cases, and compares their performance when XML manipulation is performed in an ...

As the multiplicity of organizational domains often span across nations, or even continents, the need for federated communications across domains becomes paramount. Consequently, messaging middleware has become critical towards enabling cross-domain, ...