A Framework Supporting Context-Aware Multimedia Web Services Delivery

2011 ◽  
pp. 110-134
Author(s):  
Jia Zhang ◽  
Liang-Jie Zhang ◽  
Francis Quek ◽  
Jen-Yao Chung
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Control Flow ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Access Protocol ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Efficient Delivery ◽  
Service Oriented

As Web services become more and more popular, how to manage multimedia Web services provisioning and delivery remains challenging. This chapter presents a componentization model to support quality of service (QoS)-centered, context-aware multimedia Web services delivery, which seamlessly incorporates cutting-edge technologies relating to Web services. A multimedia Web service is divided into control flow and data flow, each being delivered via different infrastructures and channels. We also propose enhancements to Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP) protocols to improve their flexibility to serve multimedia Web services. In addition, we present a set of experiments to show how our service-oriented componentization model can support efficient delivery and management of multimedia Web services.

scholarly journals A Service-Oriented Multimedia Componentization Model

2008 ◽  
pp. 559-579
Author(s):  
J. Zhang ◽  
L. Zhang ◽  
Francis Quek ◽  
Jen-Yao Chung
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Control Flow ◽  
Simple Object Access Protocol ◽  
Access Protocol ◽  
Efficient Delivery ◽  
Service Oriented

As Web services become more and more popular, how to manage multimedia Web services that can be composed as value-added service solutions remains challenging. This paper presents a service-oriented multimedia componentization model to support Quality of Service (QoS)-centered, device-independent multimedia Web services, which seamlessly incorporates cutting-edge technologies relating to Web services. A multimedia Web service is divided into control flow and data flow. Each can be delivered via different infrastructures and channels. Enhancements are proposed to facilitate Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP) protocols to improve their flexibility to serve multimedia Web services. We present a set of experiments that show the viability of our service-oriented componentization model that can support efficient delivery and management of multimedia Web services.

Web Service Composition, Optimization and the Implications for Developing Economies

2012 ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
Adenike Osofisan ◽  
Idongesit E. Eteng ◽  
Iwara Arikpo ◽  
Abel Usoro
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Web Service Composition ◽  
Theoretic Approach ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
Service Oriented

The emergence of the Service Oriented computing paradigm with its implicit inclusion of web services has caused a precipitous revolution in software engineering, e-service compositions, and optimization of e-services. Web service composition requests are usually combined with end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, which are specified in terms of non-functional properties e.g. response time, throughput, and price. This chapter describes what web services are; not just to the web but to the end users. The state of the art approaches for composing web services are briefly described and a novel game theoretic approach using genetic programming for composing web services in order to optimize service performance, bearing in mind the Quality of Service (QoS) of these web services, is presented. The implication of this approach to cloud computing and economic development of developing economies is discussed.

Multi-criteria Web Services Selection: Balancing the Quality of Design and Quality of Service

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Marwa Daaji ◽  
Ali Ouni ◽  
Mohamed Mohsen Gammoudi ◽  
Salah Bouktif ◽  
Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Service Selection ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Design Quality ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Selection Approach

Web service composition allows developers to create applications via reusing available services that are interoperable to each other. The process of selecting relevant Web services for a composite service satisfying the developer requirements is commonly acknowledged to be hard and challenging, especially with the exponentially increasing number of available Web services on the Internet. The majority of existing approaches on Web Services Selection are merely based on the Quality of Service (QoS) as a basic criterion to guide the selection process. However, existing approaches tend to ignore the service design quality, which plays a crucial role in discovering, understanding, and reusing service functionalities. Indeed, poorly designed Web service interfaces result in service anti-patterns, which are symptoms of bad design and implementation practices. The existence of anti-pattern instances in Web service interfaces typically complicates their reuse in real-world service-based systems and may lead to several maintenance and evolution problems. To address this issue, we introduce a new approach based on the Multi-Objective and Optimization on the basis of Ratio Analysis method (MOORA) as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method to select Web services based on a combination of their (1) QoS attributes and (2) QoS design. The proposed approach aims to help developers to maintain the soundness and quality of their service composite development processes. We conduct a quantitative and qualitative empirical study to evaluate our approach on a Quality of Web Service dataset. We compare our MOORA-based approach against four commonly used MCDM methods as well as a recent state-of-the-art Web service selection approach. The obtained results show that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by significantly improving the service selection quality of top- k selected services while providing the best trade-off between both service design quality and desired QoS values. Furthermore, we conducted a qualitative evaluation with developers. The obtained results provide evidence that our approach generates a good trade-off for what developers need regarding both QoS and quality of design. Our selection approach was evaluated as “relevant” from developers point of view, in improving the service selection task with an average score of 3.93, compared to an average of 2.62 for the traditional QoS-based approach.

Web Services for Quality of Service Based Charging

2010 ◽  
pp. 219-236
Author(s):  
Evelina Pencheva ◽  
Ivaylo Atanasov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Telecommunication Network ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Multimedia Networks ◽  
Qos Management ◽  
Charging Control ◽  
Underlying Network

Parlay X is a set of Web Service interfaces. These interfaces are designed to provide open access to telecommunication network functions in order to hide underlying network technology, and its control protocol complexity, from application developers. The Parlay X “intelligence” is concentrated in a node called Parlay X Gateway which converts interfaces methods in protocol messages and vice versa. An inherent constraint on any implementation requires the Parlay X Gateway to govern the interface to the underlying network i.e., to provide a single point of contact at which vertical signaling is received from the network. This chapter presents a study on alternatives for Parlay X Web Service deployment in Internet Protocol based multimedia networks (IMS). The focus is set on Parlay X Web Services for application-driven quality of service (QoS) management and charging control. It is presented as an analysis of the interfaces. Particularly the discussion is about their applicability to Policy and Charging Control architecture in IMS. Going further, the Web Service interfaces are mapped onto network protocols that they affect, namely Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Diameter. On that base an improvement is suggested concerning Parlay X interfaces for QoS management without violating the specified interface functionality. The usage of Web Services is exemplified with an application for charging control based on the provided QoS.

scholarly journals Quality Prediction of Web Services Based on a Covering Algorithm

Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Ying Jin ◽  
Guangming Cui ◽  
Yiwen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Quality Prediction ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Target User ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Better Than

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is widely used, which has fueled the rapid growth of Web services and the deployment of tremendous Web services over the last decades. It becomes challenging but crucial to find the proper Web services because of the increasing amount of Web services. However, it proves unfeasible to inspect all the Web services to check their quality values since it will consume a lot of resources. Thus, developing effective and efficient approaches for predicting the quality values of Web services has become an important research issue. In this paper, we propose UIQPCA, a novel approach for hybrid User and Item-based Quality Prediction with Covering Algorithm. UIQPCA integrates information of both users and Web services on the basis of users’ ideas on the quality of coinvoked Web services. After the integration, users and Web services which are similar to the target user and the target Web service are selected. Then, considering the result of integration, UIQPCA makes predictions on how a target user will appraise a target Web service. Broad experiments on WS-Dream, a web service dataset which is widely used in real world, are conducted to evaluate the reliability of UIQPCA. According to the results of experiment, UIQPCA is far better than former approaches, including item-based, user-based, hybrid, and cluster-based approaches.

scholarly journals QoS Measurement of Workflow-Based Web Service Compositions Using Colored Petri Net

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Nematzadeh ◽  
Homayun Motameni ◽  
Radziah Mohamad ◽  
Zahra Nematzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Petri Net ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Colored Petri Net ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Business Process Execution ◽  
And Performance

Workflow-based web service compositions (WB-WSCs) is one of the main composition categories in service oriented architecture (SOA). Eflow, polymorphic process model (PPM), and business process execution language (BPEL) are the main techniques of the category of WB-WSCs. Due to maturity of web services, measuring the quality of composite web services being developed by different techniques becomes one of the most important challenges in today’s web environments. Business should try to provide good quality regarding the customers’ requirements to a composed web service. Thus, quality of service (QoS) which refers to nonfunctional parameters is important to be measured since the quality degree of a certain web service composition could be achieved. This paper tried to find a deterministic analytical method for dependability and performance measurement using Colored Petri net (CPN) with explicit routing constructs and application of theory of probability. A computer tool called WSET was also developed for modeling and supporting QoS measurement through simulation.

A PLATFORM FOR SERVICE PROVIDER TO ADVERTISE QUALITY OF SERVICE USING WSDL

2011 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 291-302
Author(s):  
RAVI SHANKAR PANDEY
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Quality Attributes ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Service Description ◽  
Description Language ◽  
Java Code

Web services are programs which perform some elementary business process of an application and are distributed over the Internet. These services are described, discovered and executed using standard languages WSDL, SOAP and UDDI. Proliferation of web services has resulted in intense competition between providers, which provide the same service. To survive in such a competitive environment, they need to advertise the quality of their service. Web service description language does not provide support to describe quality attributes. Recently, DAmbrogio proposed QOS model of web services based on a meta model of WSDL. In this paper, we present a platform to advertise QOS as declared by the service provider. This tool generates a WSDL file from Java code along with its quality of service attributes. It accepts Java code and a file containing quality attributes. These attributes include reliability, availability, and operation demand and operation latency. These attributes are included in WSDL file as a content of description element.

scholarly journals SOADIWA: A Service-oriented Architecture for Data Interoperability in Web Applications

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Yusuf Lateef Oladimejia
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Data Interoperability ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Quality Of Service Assurance

The realisation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to communicate data between systems running on different platforms lack an organised framework to capture the essential elements required for successful interoperability between web applications and their services. In this work, a SOA for Data Interoperability in Web Applications (SOADIWA) was designed. The architecture of SOADIWA was based on five layers, namely Web Application Layer (WAL), Quality of Service Assurance Certifier Layer (QoSACL), Web Service Layer (WSL), Visualization Input Layer (VIL) and Visualization Output Layer (VOL). In WAL, the Service Requester (SR) initiates a request for data from the Service Provider (SP) through the QoSACL to provide appropriate website via WSL for rendering of services which must be accepted, processed and returned for a particular need in VIL. The requested data is filtered in VIL for data exploration and analysis in VOL using context-sensitive visualization techniques. The purpose of QoSACL is to check and verify the claims made by the SP about its quality of service. This enabled the SR to choose the service that satisfied its needs. The implementation comprised of Java Script, Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and NuGet packages; while the experiment was simulated on LoadUI pro application. Standard metrics such as Optimal Performance (OP) and Phased Effort Distribution (PED) were developed to test SOADIWA. These results conformed to basic web service interoperability. The work led to the integration of a host of techniques towards the creation of a novel tool that is useful in web domain using SOA approach.

Third Party Multimedia Streaming Control with Guaranteed Quality of Service in Evolved Packet System

2014 ◽  
pp. 505-526
Author(s):  
Evelina Pencheva
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Multimedia Streaming ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Application Server ◽  
Guaranteed Quality ◽  
State Models ◽  
And Control

This paper studies implementation issues of Parlay X “Multimedia Streaming Control” and “Application-driven Quality of Service” web services in the Evolved Packet System (EPS). EPS is defined as evolution of mobile communication networks with broadband radio interface and Internet Protocol (IP) based core. The main signalling protocols in EPS used for multimedia session management and quality of service control are respectively Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Diameter. The functional architecture for third party multimedia streaming control with guaranteed quality of service considers deployment of an application server which exposes web service interfaces toward applications and control protocols toward the network. In a role of mediation functionality, this application server is responsible for the translation between web services interface operations and control protocol messages. In addition, it needs to maintain synchronized state models that reflect both third party application view and protocol view. An approach to automated functional verification of such type of application server providing “Multimedia Streaming Control” and “Application-driven Quality of Service” web service interfaces is suggested. Use cases that illustrate the approach applicability are described.

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