Title
Applying optimization principle patterns to design real-time ORBs
Abstract
First-generation CORBA middleware was reasonably successful at meeting the demands of request/response applications with best-effort quality of service (QoS) requirements. Supporting applications with more stringent QoS requirements poses new challenges for next-generation real-time CORBA middleware, however. This paper provides three contributions to the design and optimization of real-time CORBA middleware. First, we outline the challenges faced by real-time ORBs implementers, focusing on optimization principle patterns that can be applied to CORBA's Object Adapter and ORB Core. Second, we describe how TAO, our real-time CORBA implementation, addresses these challenges and applies key ORB optimization principle patterns. Third, we present the results of empirical benchmarks that compare the impact of TAO's design strategies on ORB efficiency, predictability, and scalability. Our findings indicate that ORBs must be highly configurable and adaptable to meet the QoS requirements for a wide range of real-time applications. In addition, we show how TAO can be configured to perform predictably and scalably, which is essential to support real-time applications. A key result of our work is to demonstrate that the ability of CORBA ORBs to support real-time systems is mostly an implementation detail. Thus, relatively few changes are required to the standard CORBA reference model and programming API to support real-time applications.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1999
COOTS
real-time orbs implementers,optimization principle pattern,standard corba reference model,next-generation real-time corba middleware,real-time corba middleware,first-generation corba middleware,real-time corba implementation,orb core,real-time application,corba orbs,real-time system,middleware,real time,real time systems,quality of service,best effort,reference model
Field
DocType
Citations 
Middleware,Predictability,Reference model,Computer science,Common Object Request Broker Architecture,Orb (optics),Adapter (computing),Quality of service,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
17
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.56
21
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Irfan Pyarali119920.34
Carlos O'Ryan228126.47
Douglas C. Schmidt35622576.58
nanbor wang426424.02
Vishal Kachroo5394.74
Gokhale Aniruddha61645172.16