IDEAL-TRAFFIC: A self-adaptive management framework for building monitoring applications with support to network topology changes

Abstract

The evolution and dissemination of network communication technology and the advanced status of embedded devices encourage the creation of solutions for monitoring cities in various environments. End-users can benefit from applications that deliver information in real time. On the other hand, administrating these applications is not a trivial task. Components may fail and invalidate an application. In this essay we present IDEAL-TRAFFIC: a framework based on SOA architecture with modules to manage the state of the service. IDEAL-TRAFFIC provides a simple interface that enables the system administrator to create applications and to make them available to the user. A self-adaptation process is necessary in order to ensure quality of services. In order to maximize resources usage, a process of readaptation is embedded. These approaches follow the rules of the application's requirements and do not depend on human intervention.