On Reflexive and Dynamically Adaptable Environments for Distributed Computing

Frédéric Ogel (1) , Bertil Folliot (1) , Ian Piumarta

1 SRC - Systèmes répartis et coopératifs

Current technologies for distributed application development, while being well-adapted for the client-server model, do not adequately address emerging application domains, such as multimedia, embedded or mobile applications. The black box approach, used to achieve distribution and OS transparency, prevents application developers from adapting execution environments to the semantics and constraints of their application domain, thus leading to a growing number of ad-hoc solutions which are closed, static and poorly interoperable. As a solution, we present a reflexive and dynamically adaptable execution environment,/sup 1/ based on reification of hardware resources and a standalone dynamic code generator. This architecture allows dynamic construction of specialized OS or middleware components.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Frédéric Ogel, Bertil Folliot, Ian Piumarta. On Reflexive and Dynamically Adaptable Environments for Distributed Computing. 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Auto-adaptive and Reconfigurable Systems, ICDCS'2003, May 2003, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. pp.112-117, ⟨10.1109/ICDCSW.2003.1203541⟩. ⟨hal-01529162⟩