Engineering an Autonomic Container for WSRF-Based Web Services

Abstract

This paper presents an autonomic Web service resource framework (WSRF) container that enables self- configuration using IBM's autonomic computing (AC) architecture and resolves quality of service (QoS) problems through service migration. The migration manager bases its decisions on an overall health status metric (H-metric). The H-metric characterises the health of a service container. A unified AC sensor/effector interface, protocol, and metric summarization allows us to build up a hierarchical WSRF container structure to create a virtualized WSRF container.