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Predictability
B- Adaptation Platform
The second part is an overview of architectures for (decentralized supervision)
Autonomy
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components composing the application). It allows Smartphone, Mobile Phone, PC, etc.). The third one is the
adapting the application in order to respect the required Temporal context. It preserves and manages the history
QoS. Presentation deals with HCI (not addressed in this (date, hour, synchronizations, actions performed, etc.).
paper). The last one is called Geographic and gives geographical
Here is a global schema of an adaptable application: information (GPS Data, horizontal/vertical moving, speed,
adaptations
etc.).
wish a QoS
provided QoS
Application adap
tation
s
The second layer, called « context management » [44]
Adaptation [45] is based on the previous layer representations. It
Manager
infl
push/pull
on
by
etc.). The Storage of context data in order to allow
use
ed
r re
monitor
services retrieving them, the Quality giving a measure
qui
rem
Context Information
Reflexivity allowing to represent the application itself.
The localization manages geographic information in order
to locate entities, predict their displacements.
Figure 2 : Adaptable applications The last layer proposes mechanisms to permit the
adaptation to the context. We will find several
Whereas [34] [35] do not make distinction between mechanisms in order to react to contextual events. The
context oriented and application oriented data (functional first one is the software component Composition, the
data), we think that such a distinction makes design easier second one is the Migration in order to move entities and
and offers a good separation of concerns [36] . the last one, the Adaptation to ensure the evolution of the
application. This last point is no-functional, the
2. What is context? middleware manages it, it can depend on a user profile or
on rules provided by the user. The polymorphism
2.1 Definition and model facilitates the migration of entities and their adaptation to
various hosts (with more or less constraints).
The origin of the term « context awareness » if attributed Context Management Tools
to Schilit and Theimer [42] . They explain that it is « the
Adaptation Migration Composition Polymorphisme
capacity for a mobile application and/or a user to
discover and react to situations modifications ». Many
other definitions can be found in [43] . The application
Context Management Services
context is the situation of the application so the context is
a set of external data that may influence the application Service Storage Quality Reflexivity localization
[36] .
A context management system can interpret the context
and formalize it in order to make a high level Type of the context
representation. It creates an abstraction for the entities User Hardware Environment Temporal Geographic
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Ubiquitous Computing, Security, etc. But to be honest, the resources, etc.). The user's context is captured through the
context it not a new concept in computer science! Since interfaces and the information system (user's profile
the early 90’s, Olivetti Research Center with the description files). At last, environmental context can be
ActiveBadge [Harter, 1994] and most of all, with a lot a captured through sensors and modified by actuators.
regrets, the Xerox PARC with the PARCTab System [51] Flow
Type of context
gave the bases of modern context aware applications. Hardware User Environment
#1 System and Interfaces and Sensors
In order to be aware of the context, the following network information
architecture (see Figure 5) is “classical”. An example can primitives system
#2 Resource Interfaces Actuators
be found in [46] . It can be summarized as a superposition
allocation
of layers. Each of them matches to a contextual Table 1 : Means of interaction between application and context
information acquisition process, a contextual information
management and an adaptation of the application to the However, even if it is possible to design limited
context (as defined in Figure 3). applications according to the use of contextual
information, the main interest is to be able to adapt the
Application Adaptation behavior of the applications to the context evolutions.
Particularly, the increasing use of mobile and limited
Context Management devices implies the deployment of adaptable applications.
Such approach allows having a quality of service
Contextual Information Acquisition management (functional and non-functional services as
Figure 5 : Architectural layers of context aware applications energy saving for example).
According to Figure 5, context management do imply to 3.1 Adaptable context aware applications
have dynamic applications in order to adapt them to
variations of the context and so to provide a quality of Adding adaptation to context aware applications means
service corresponding to current capabilities of the the addition of a new interaction corresponding to the
environment (application + runtime). influence that the context has on the application. That is
the property for the application to adapt itself to the
3. Context aware applications context (Figure 7).
Context aware applications are tightly coupled to mobiles
Application
devices and ubiquitous computing in the meaning of
"machines that fit the human environment, instead of Data F low #1 = consultation
Data F low #2 = modification
forcing humans to enter theirs" [1] . These applications are
3
A pp lication
Supervision
Adaptation
D ata Fl ow #1 = co nsu lta tio n
2
1
Co ntext Context
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2
and system faults. In [27] , self-adaptive applications are Da ta F low #1 = consulta tion
Da ta F low #2 = modification
described as useful for pervasive applications and sensor Da ta F low #3 = a daptation
2
Platform
systems. Self-adaptive applications mean that adaptations
are managed by the applications itself. It evaluates its
2
3
behavior, configuration, and with distributed application,
Context
its deployment. The application captures the context (flow
#1) and therefore adapts its behavior (data flow #3). The Figure 9 : Adaptable Context Aware Application with platform
activity of the application modifies the context (flux #2).
This approach, represented in Figure 7, raises the essential Recent works as Rainbow use a closed-loop control based
problem of accessing to distant context information. on external models and mechanisms to monitor and adapt
Indeed, through the interactions described in Table 1 it is system behavior at run time to achieve various goals [32] ,
only possible for the application to interact with its local such solution is closed to the use of pervasive supervision.
context. In order to get or modify distant contextual In order to implement such a solution, we need a
information, the designer of the application has to set up distributed platform on all heterogeneous hosts. Such
specific services on the different sites of its application. It architecture allows to capture local context, and to propose
becomes necessary to set up many non functional local adaptations. Additionally, communication between
mechanisms that strongly increases the complexity of the local platforms gives a global vision of the context
application and are difficult to maintain up to date. permitting to have a global measure of the context and
Moreover self-adaptive solutions imply to have a planning adapted reactions.
and an evaluation part at runtime and a control loop. In Each platform has three main tasks to accomplish:
order to make the evaluation, such application needs − Capture of the context: This task is important and
components description, as well as software description, implements tools to capture information of layer
structure and various alternatives, i.e. various assembling 1 (see Figure 3).
configurations. − Context Management Service. Its role is to
Such solutions do not simplify the separations of concern, manage and evaluate information from layer 1 in
and so increase the practical viability of the application order to evaluate if adaptation is required.
and its maintainability and possible evolutions. Moreover, − Context Management Tools. It proposes a set of
with ubiquitous and heterogeneous environments, such mechanisms to adapt the application because of
generic solutions are not suitable to exploit the potential of variations of the context.
hosts [28] . That is the reasons why most systems tend to
solve these problems using platforms. The means operated to realize data flows #1 and #2 of
Figure 9 depends on the types of context (Table 2).
3.1.2 Supervised adaptation Interactions with local context use the mechanisms
described in (Table 1) whereas those with distant context
In these approaches a runtime platform interfaces the use services of the platform. The middleware of the
application and the context. It allows then access to platform offers services for context capture providing
distant context. The application only senses the context contextual information completed by time and localisation
(flow #1) by means of the middleware of the platform. parameters as described in Figure 4.
The application can modify the context and the platform
itself (flow #2). Both the application and the platform Flo Type of context
Context
adapt themselves to the context (flow #3). This kind of w Hardware User Environment
organization is shown in Figure 9. System and Interfaces Sensors Local
network
#1 primitives
Services of the Services of the Services of Distant
platform platform the platform
Resource Interfaces Actuators Local
allocation
#2
Services of the Services of the Services of Distant
platform platform the platform
Table 2 : Interactions between Application and Context with a Platform
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imply causes
Generally, we consider a platform as a set of elements of
platform platform
virtualization (Figure 10) allowing application designers to state change state change
have a runtime environment independent of the hardware
and network infrastructures, supporting distribution and
offering non functional general services (persistence,
imply imply
security, transactions …) or services specific to a domain
Context Context
(business, medical …).
Interaction platform/Application by services Interaction platform/Application by container
Application
The interaction mode between platform and application
allows distinguishing two families (Figure 12):
conta iner
middleware - Non intrusive platforms;
he terogeneity servic es distribution - Intrusive platforms.
- service
event cause
- container
platform platform
In the first case, the changes of the state of the application change of change of
that the platform knows are those inserted into the state state
Figure 11 right). These containers can themselves offer Non intrusive platform Intrusive platform
some services to the business components or capture Figure 12 : Modes of interaction between platform and application
information about their changes of state by observing their
behavior.
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3.3 Architecture of context aware adaptable Now, let’s have a look on different context aware
applications applications types that can be build according to data
flows really used. Firstly it is important to notice that for
An overall schema of the architecture of an adaptable context aware applications, data flow A is essential. In
context aware application is presented in Figure 13. order to be adaptable, at least flow C or flow D need to be
Relationship between platform and application are provided. If not, the platform is the only one able to be
materialized by four flows: adaptable. The optional data flow B represents the
possibility that the application has to configure the
A ppl icati on interaction modes corresponding to the flows A, C and D.
D ata Fl ow A = Requirements for reso urces
D ata Fl ow B = Control of th e p latform The Table 3 presents the four models of adaptation that it
A
B
C
D
and D
3
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B B
Adaptation Application Adaptation Application
D D
A
Services
Services Platform
2
Platform
2
2
2
1
Context capture
1
Capture of context
Context
Context
Platform
Services For the adaptation it means:
2
2
Context capture
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Plan changes
components uses the generic framework called Korrontea.
This framework is a first class component connector able
to implement various communications policies.
New
Adaptation Evaluate and
deployment management monitor
observations 4.1 Kalimucho architecture
A C D
A
A C D A C D
D
D
architecture of the Kalimucho platform is the following: Communication
between platforms
Osag ai a Components Platform Platform
site #1 site #2
Host 1 Host 3
(Osagaia) and flow containers (Korrontea). Depending on
the host running the component, it will capture users,
Data Fl ows between Components (Korrontea connectors)
Intra-platform communicatio ns Kalimucho platform environment, hardware, temporal or geographic
Osagaia Components information (see layer 1 - Figure 3). The second layer
Figure 19: Kalimucho’s General Architecture (context management services) is done by implementing
an heuristic in order to evaluate the current Quality of
It is based on a distributed service based platform
Service (QoS) and to propose adaptations if needed and if
implementing non-functional services for adaptations
possible. The last layer (context management tools) gives
(layer 2 – Figure 3). The functional part is implemented
solutions to provide adaptations
with software and hardware components running into the
(add/remove/move/connect/disconnect components).
generic Osagaia container. Communication between
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The platform is distributed on every machine on which connections. The control unit manages the life cycle of the
components of the application are deployed (desktops, business component and the interactions with the runtime
mobile devices and sensors). The different parts of the platform. Thus, the platform supervises the containers and,
platform communicate through the network. indirectly, the business components (a full description of
Communications between BCs (local or distant) are the Osagaia software component model is available in [31]
achieved by data flows encapsulated into Korrontea ). Thanks to this container, business components read and
containers. write data flows managed by Connectors called Korrontea
Various versions of the platform are implemented on the (see Figure 22). Its main role is to connect software
different hosts according to their physical capacities. On a components of the applications. The Korrontea container
desktop all the parts of the platform are implemented receives data flows produced by components and
whereas, on a mobile device, and particularly on a transports them. It is made up of two parts. The control
wireless sensor, light versions are proposed (one for CDC unit implements interactions between the Korrontea
and one for CLDC compliant hosts). Consequently, only container and the platform while an exchange unit
non avoidable services for the host are deployed (for manages the input/output connections with components.
example a service for persistence is useless on a sensor). The container is the distributed entity of our model, i.e. it
In the same way, the adaptation manager implemented on can transfer data flows between different sites of
a mobile device can be lightened using internal services of distributed applications. The flow management is done
one of the neighbouring platform (for example, only local according to the business part of the connector
routing information is available on a limited device). If the implementing both the communication mode (client/server
platform of this device needs to find others routes in order for example) and the communication politic (with or
to set up a new connection, it has to use services of the without synchronization, loss of data, etc.). A full
platforms implemented on neighbouring desktops. description of the Korrontea component model is available
in [28] ).
4.2 Osagaia Software Component Model Korrontea
GetSlice ProvideSlice
Input Output
Unit Unit
Osagaia Acces sPort Client/Serv er Acces sPort
Pro cess
Access Port R eadF low WriteF low
Input Business Output
Component D
Unit Unit
Acces sPort Acc essPort Control
...
Unit
C, D
Acc essPort W riteFlow
A A
Control A D
Interactions with the Platform
A
A
Unit
C D
{
{
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