An aspect-oriented approach to bypassing middleware layers

Demir, Omer Erdem; Dévanbu, Prémkumar; Wohlstadter, Eric; Tai, Stefan

doi:10.1145/1218563.1218567

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“…Like in [16] which shows the advantages of reducing CORBA functionalities (NEST and OEP) in benefit of efficiency, we believe that a small number of really useful functionalities are more important and efficient that large implementations of today middleware. Also [13] argues that due to the complexity and completeness of many middleware platforms efficiency may be compromised. The paper studies several ways to bypass the middleware layer (or part of it) to improve efficiency.…”

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A middleware architecture for unmanned aircraft avionics

López¹,

Royo²,

Pastor³

et al. 2007

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware Companion

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An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is a non-piloted airplane designed to operate in dangerous and repetitive situations. With the advent of UAV's civil applications, UAVs are emerging as a valid option in commercial scenarios. If it must be economically viable, the same platform should implement a variety of missions with little reconfiguration time and overhead.This paper presents a middleware-based architecture specially suited to operate as a flexible payload and mission controller in a UAV. The system is composed of low-cost computing devices connected by network. The functionality is divided into reusable services distributed over a number of nodes with a middleware managing their lifecycle and communication. Some research has been done in this area; yet it is mainly focused on the control domain and in its realtime operation. Our proposal differs in that we address the implementation of adaptable and reconfigurable unmanned missions in low-cost and low-resources hardware.

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confidence: 99%

A middleware architecture for unmanned aircraft avionics

López¹,

Royo²,

Pastor³

et al. 2007

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware Companion

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“…Similarly, [2] identifies that in reflective middleware, reflection crosscuts core middleware functionality; hence, aspects are used to customise the reflective MOPs. Finally, Demir et al [14] present an aspect-oriented IDL that allow developers to insert application-level behaviour lower in the middleware stack, bypassing unnecessary layer processing, e.g. performing security checks on an object method invocation at the socket layer.…”

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The case for aspect-oriented reflective middleware

Grace

Truyen

Lagaisse

et al. 2007

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware: Held at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International

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The emergence of applications domains such as pervasive and autonomic computing has increased the need for customisation and dynamic adaptation of both distributed systems, and the underlying middleware platforms. Two highly complementary technologies have been advocated to meet these challenges, namely: aspect oriented programming (AOP) and reflective middleware. However, these have so far been considered in isolation, or typically target a particular middleware challenge e.g. using aspects to customise a middleware implementation; or using reflection (or dynamic AOP) to alter runtime behaviour. We believe that in combination these technologies better support the engineering of dynamic distributed systems. In this paper, we explore how aspects and reflection have been utilised in both the programming language and middleware communities; building upon this work, we identify four core relationships that form the basis of our model for aspect-oriented reflective middleware. We then explore the potential of this model to i) increase support for the engineering of dynamic reconfigurations, and ii) improve the performance of adaptive systems.

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An Approach to Middleware Specialization for Cyber Physical Systems

Dabholkar

Gokhālé

2009

2009 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops

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Contemporary computing infrastructure, such as networking stacks, OS and middleware, are made up of layers of software functionality that have evolved over decades to support the broadest range of applications. The featurerichness and the layers of functionality, however, tend to be excessive and a source of performance overhead for Cyberphysical Systems (CPS). Yet it is necessary to leverage the decades of proven patterns and principles in these infrastructures. This paper presents an approach to systematically specialize general-purpose middleware used to host CPS. Our approach is based on the principles of FeatureOriented Software Development (FOSD), which requires deducing an algebraic structure of contemporary middleware based on a higher level of abstraction of features. The paper showcase how Origami matrices and generative programming can play a key role in realizing the specializations. The paper concludes by delving in to future open areas of middleware specialization research.

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An aspect-oriented approach to bypassing middleware layers

Cited by 5 publications

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A middleware architecture for unmanned aircraft avionics

A middleware architecture for unmanned aircraft avionics

The case for aspect-oriented reflective middleware

An Approach to Middleware Specialization for Cyber Physical Systems

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