An Efficient Approach for Service Process Reconfiguration in SOA with End-to-End QoS Constraints
Using SOA, service processes can be composed statically or dynamically using services provided by different service providers. Some services may become faulty at runtime and cause the service process to violate the end-to-end quality of service (QoS) constraint. We propose an efficient approach for replacing faulty services to ensure that the reconfigured service process still meets the original end-to-end QoS constraint. We use an iterative algorithm to identify reconfiguration regions that have a small number of services, some faulty and some healthy, in order to have more service selection options. By reconfiguring services in these selected regions rather than the whole service process, the computational complexity is significantly reduced. Simulation study has shown that our approach is efficient as most service processes can be repaired by replacing only a small number of services.

title: A Hybrid Restoration Scheme Based on Threshold Reaction Time in Optical Burst-Switched Networks
abstract: Optical Burst-Switched (OBS) networks usually employ one-way reservation by sending a burst control packet (BCP) with a specific offset time, before transmitting each data burst frame (BDF). Therefore, a fiber link failure may lead to loss of several BDFs as the ingress nodes sending these BDFs remain unaware of the failed link till they receive the failure indication signal (FIS). In this paper, we propose a hybrid restoration scheme, wherein we employ a novel combination of sub-path as well as path restoration schemes. In particular, the upstream node preceding the failed link employs sub-path restoration as soon as it detects the failure. Thereafter, when the source ingress node receives the FIS message, it (source ingress node) takes over the responsibility and employs path restoration. However, sub-path restoration is exercised by the upstream node only if the remaining time intervals left for the yet-to-arrive BDFs (for which BCPs have already left the upstream node) are less than a minimum time interval (called as threshold reaction time). Performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated through extensive computer simulation using OPNET. Our results indicate that the proposed restoration scheme significantly reduces burst losses due to link failure and, thus, outperforms the existing restoration schemes.

title: Backup reprovisioning to remedy the effect of multiple link failures in WDM mesh networks
abstract: As networks grow in size and complexity, both the probability and the impact of failures increase. The pre-allocated backup bandwidth, which has been widely investigated in the literature, may not be able to provide full protection guarantee when multiple failures occur in a network. In this study, we consider multiple concurrent failures where concurrent means that a new failure occurs before a previous failure is repaired. To combat the effect of multiple concurrent failures, new backups can be reprovisioned after one failure such that the next potential failure can be handled effectively and efficiently. We consider dynamic traffic where a pair of link-disjoint primary and backup paths is provisioned when a new connection request arrives. After a failure occurs, the affected connections switch traffic from their primary paths to backup paths. To protect against next potential failure, we reprovision new backups for connections that become unprotected or vulnerable because of losing their primary or their backup due to the previous failure or due to backup resource sharing. This approach is called Minimal Backup Reprovisioning (MBR). An alternative approach is to globally rearrange backups for all connections after one failure occurs, which is called Global Backup Reprovisioning (GBR). Backup reprovisioning can be performed whenever the network's state changes, e.g., (1) when a new request arrives, (2) when an existing connection terminates, (3) when a network failure occurs, (4) when a failed link/node is repaired, etc., to utilize the available resources more efficiently or to recover quickly from the next failure. In this study, we perform MBR or GBR after one network failure occurs to protect against the next potential failure in a wavelength-convertible WDM mesh network. The link-vector network model which can maximally explore the backup-sharing potential is assumed in this study. We then analyze the complexity of MBR and GBR under such a network model. A reprovisioning algorithm is proposed for MBR which can significantly reduce the connection vulnerability without the knowledge of the location of the next failure. In GBR, both integer linear program (ILP) and heuristic-based approaches are proposed. We compare capacity requirement and computational complexity of MBR to that of GBR through numerical examples. MBR demonstrates a good tradeoff between complexity and capacity efficiency to handle multiple concurrent failures

title: Explicit Routing for Traffic Engineering in Labeled Optical Burst-Switched WDM Networks
abstract: Optical burst switching (OBS) is a promising technique for supporting high-capacity bursty data traffic over optical wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) networks. A label-switched path can be established to forward a burst control packet (BCP) if each OBS node is augmented with an IP/MPLS controller. Such a network is called a labeled OBS (LOBS) network, and it can exploit the explicit routing and constraint-based routing properties supported in the MPLS framework to perform traffic and resource engineering. In this paper, we consider the traffic-engineering problem in a LOBS network, using explicit routing to balance network load and to reduce the burst-loss probability. We model the traffic-engineering problem in a LOBS network as an optimization problem and propose two new objective functions to minimize network congestion. Our illustrative numerical examples show that the burst-loss probability can be significantly reduced using optimization technique, when compared with shortest-path routing.

title: Optimized routing for fault management in optical burst-switched WDM networks
abstract: Optical burst switching (OBS) is a promising technique for supporting high-capacity, bursty data traffic over optical wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) networks. An optical link failure may result in a huge amount of data (and revenue) loss, and it has been an important survivability concern in optical networks. In this paper, we study the fault- management issues related with a link failure in an OBS network. We propose to use pre-planned global rerouting to balance network load and to reroute bursts after a link fails. We apply optimization techniques to pre-plan explicit backup routes for failure scenarios. Our objective is to achieve optimal load balancing both before and after a failure such that the network state can still remain stable with minimum burst-loss probability when a failure occurs. We apply the pre-planned normal and backup routing tables to an OBS network, and study the network performance after a failure occur using illustrative numerical examples. The results show that the average burst-loss probability can be significantly reduced by 60% - from an average of 0.10 to 0.04 (when the normalized link load is less than 0.5) using globally-rerouted backup routes, when compared with the scheme without global rerouting. We also observe that the burst-loss probability is reduced by 43% - from an average of 0.07 to 0.04 (when the link load is less than 0.5) if the rerouting is done using optimization techniques, when compared with shortest-path routing.for Fault Management

title: The LLAMA Middleware Support for Accountable Service-Oriented Architecture
abstract: Enterprises are turning to SOA for the flexible deployment of business processes. While current monitoring tools can detect service execution problems in an enterprise's servers and report such problems to human decision makers, they may not closely monitor the external services they use, diagnose the root cause of process problems, and automatically reconfigure the process to replace faulty services. This paper presents the LLAMA middleware support for service process monitoring, run-time management, and configuration. Instances of accountability agents are deployed to selectively monitor some services' performance. These agents in turn allow LLAMA's Accountability Authority (AA) to diagnose process problems and apply any necessary reconfiguration. The project also builds tools to simplify the setup and deployment of LLAMA components. Our experimental results indicate that using LLAMA contributes only a modest amount of system overhead, and that the diagnosis process is swift and sufficiently accurate.

title: Landmine Feature Extraction and Classification of GPR Data Based on SVM Method
abstract: In this paper, the problem of detecting buried landmine is tackled in the feature extraction and classification. Determining the likelihood set of an unknown pattern (feature vector), extracted from ground penetrating radar data by using SVM method. The advantage of SVM method in feature extraction and classification of image processing is: A classifier works well both on the training samples and on previously unseen samples; In addition, the SVM provides, enable a classification performance improvement based on from high feature dimensions to two or three feature dimensions. Finally, SVM method has a standard theory and a good implementation algorithm.

title: A Web Service Adapter with Contract-Oriented Methodology
abstract: Loose coupling is a cornerstone for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Service contracts enable loose coupling, because they conceal internal details of services from the outside world behind the facade. However, current works on service oriented analysis and design (SOAD) largely focus on defining processes for developing business processes and services without considering variability in details. In this paper, a Web Service adapter of service-contract oriented is presented in order to enhance the applicability and reusability of such services. We also introduce some critical issues about service contract analysis engine, skeleton code generate engine and web-based WSDL editor in the Web Service adapter. Additionally, the Web Service adapter designed in this paper is compared with related tools, and the results indicate that our methods demonstrate a more desirable interactivity and stability.

title: Personalized QoS Prediction forWeb Services via Collaborative Filtering
abstract: Many researchers propose that, not only functional but also non-functional properties, also known as quality of service (QoS), should be taken into consideration when consumers select services. Consumers need to make prediction on quality of unused web services before selecting. Usually, this prediction is based on other consumers' experiences. Being aware of different QoS experiences of consumers, this paper proposes a collaborative filtering based approach to making similarity mining and prediction from consumers' experiences. Experimental results demonstrate that this approach can make significant improvement on the effectiveness of QoS prediction for web services.

title: TCP Quick-Adjust by Utilizing Explicit Link Characteristic Information
abstract: This paper investigates the utilization of explicit bottleneck link characteristic information in order to enhance TCP behaviors. We propose the TCP Quick-Adjust algorithm as an extension of TCP Quick-Start, to allow end nodes to quickly adjust their sending rate for ongoing connections according to the reported bottleneck link bandwidth. Our scheme is considered to be especially suitable to use in a mobile operator's controlled network domain, where it is possible to provide a subscribed mobile node with reasonably accurate access link and path information. The link characteristic information is piggybacked in IP mobility signaling in this paper. Using simulations, we show that TCP Quick-Adjust provides good performance in terms of link capacity utilization in the scenarios where vertical handovers can happen between two links with very different characteristics.

title: A New FCM-Based Algorithm of Hydrophobic Image Segmentation