Scalable Evolution of Highly Available Systems

Jason O. HALLSTROM  William M. LEAL  Anish ARORA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E86-D   No.10   pp.2154-2164
Publication Date: 2003/10/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (IEICE/IEEE Joint Special Issue on Assurance Systems and Networks)
Category: Reliability and Availability
Keyword: 
assurance systems,  highly available systems,  dynamic reconfiguration,  runtime evolution,  online maintenance,  mediation,  interception,  interceptor,  wrapper,  

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Summary: 
The demand for highly available software systems has increased dramatically over the past several years. Such systems must be developed using a discipline that supports unanticipated runtime evolution. We characterize the desiderata of a programming model that provides such support, and describe the design and implementation of an architecture satisfying these criteria. The Dynamic Reconfiguration Subsystem (DRSS) is an interceptor-based open container architecture that supports the development of highly available systems by enabling the scalable, dynamic deployment of cross-cutting software modifications. We have implemented a prototype of DRSS using Microsoft's .NET Framework.