SLA-Aware Enterprise Service Computing

Abstract

There is a growing trend towards enterprise system integration across organizational and enterprise boundaries on the global Internet platform. The Enterprise Service Computing (ESC) has been adopted by more and more corporations to meet the growing demand from businesses and the global economy. However the ESC as a new distributed computing paradigm poses many challenges and issues of quality of services. For example, how is ESC compliant with the quality of service (QoS)? How do service providers guarantee services which meet service consumers’ needs as well as wants? How do both service consumers and service providers agree with QoS at runtime? In this chapter, SLA-Aware enterprise service computing is first introduced as a solution to the challenges and issues of ESC. Then, SLA-Aware ESC is defined as new architectural styles which include SLA-Aware Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (ESOA-SLA) and SLA-Aware Enterprise Cloud Service Architecture (ECSA-SLA). In addition, the enterprise architectural styles are specified through our extended ESOA and ECSA models. The ECSA-SLA styles include SLA-Aware cloud services, SLA-Aware cloud service consumers, SLA-Aware cloud SOA infrastructure, SLA-Aware cloud SOA management, SLA-Aware cloud SOA process and SLA-Aware SOA quality attributes. The main advantages of viewing and defining SLA-Aware ESC as an architectural style are (1) abstracting the common structure, constraints and behaviors of a family of ESC systems, such as ECSA-SLA style systems and (2) defining general design principles for the family of enterprise architectures. The design principles of ECSA-SLA systems are proposed based on the model of ECSA-SLA. Finally, we discuss the challenges of SLA-Aware ESC and suggest that the autonomic service computing, automated service computing, adaptive service computing, real-time SOA, and event-driven architecture can help to address the challenges.