Support Components for Quality of Service in Distributed Environments: Monitoring Service (extended version)

Citation

Reed DA & Turner KJ (1997) Support Components for Quality of Service in Distributed Environments: Monitoring Service (extended version). In: Campbell A & Nahrstedt K (eds.) Building QoS into Distributed Systems. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. IFIP Fifth International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQOS '97) - Building QoS into Distributed Systems, Center for Telecommunications Research, Columbia University, New York, USA, 21.05.1997-23.05.1997. USA: Springer, pp. 255-258. http://www.springer.com/computer/communications/book/978-0-412-80940-8

Abstract
A number of services are required in a Quality of Service oriented distributed environment. One of these required services is monitoring. To provide a complete picture monitoring must occur with both local and global scope. Rather than have a bespoke monitoring system for each distributed application it is proposed that the optimum solution is a generic service which can be modified to suit the distributed application. The approach presented in this paper develops naturally from formal system specifications and encompasses many of the Quality of Service characteristics outlined in the proposed ISO Quality of Service Framework Standard.