Using diversity to design and deploy fault tolerant web services

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Proceedings of the 2011 20th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 2011

Publication Date

9-15-2011

Abstract

Any software component for instance Web services is prone to unexpected failures. To guarantee business process continuity despite these failures, component replication is usually put forward as a solution to make these components fault tolerant. In this paper we illustrate the limitations of replication and suggests diversity as an alternative solution. In the context of Web services diversity stems from the semantic similarity of functionalities of Web services. Building upon this similarity, a diversity group consisting of semantically similar Web services is built and then controlled using different execution models. Each model defines how the Web services in the diversity group collaborate and step in when one of them fails to ensure operation continuity. An architecture showing the use of diversity to design and deploy fault tolerant Web services is presented in this paper. © 2011 IEEE.

ISBN

9780769544106

Publisher

IEEE

First Page

73

Last Page

78

Disciplines

Business | Computer Sciences

Keywords

Diversity, Fault tolerance, Semantic similarity, Web service

Scopus ID

80052618626

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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