SOAMANET: A Tool for Evaluating Service-Oriented Architectures on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

• Published in: 2010 IEEE/ACM 14th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications pp. 179 - 188
• Main Authors: Neema, H, Kashyap, A, Kereskenyi, R, Yuan Xue, Karsai, G
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2010
• Subjects: Ad hoc networks; Analytical models; Computational modeling; mobile ad-hoc networks; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; model-based integration; modeling and simulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; service discovery; Service oriented architecture; service-oriented architectures; workflow modeling and execution
• ISBN: 1424486513; 9781424486519
• ISSN: 1550-6525
• DOI: 10.1109/DS-RT.2010.27

Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are increasingly being used for designing and building large-scale networked and distributed systems. Catering to the complex and dynamically varying needs of business applications/clients, these systems must usually be realized by dynamically composing a variety of network-available services. Evaluation of large-scale SOAs, particularly on dynamic network platforms, such as Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), is a non-trivial problem that requires not only a correct modeling of SOAs and the network platform, but also their relationships. This paper describes a new tool - SOAMANET - to design and rapidly synthesize simulations for the experimental evaluation of SOAs on MANET platforms. With its modeling techniques and analysis capabilities, SOAMANET allows simulation-based and system execution-based analysis of dynamic SOA and/or MANET designs and implementations.