Title: A DSL for elastic component-based cloud application

Authors: Saddam Hocine Hiba; Meriem Belguidoum

Addresses: LIRE Laboratory, University of Constantine 2, Constantine, Algeria ' LIRE Laboratory, University of Constantine 2, Constantine, Algeria

Abstract: The deployment of component-based applications in cloud systems environment is becoming more and more complex. It is expected to provide elasticity in order to allow a deployed application to scale dynamically and meet variation in demand while ensuring a certain level of quality of service (QoS). However, there are still some open issues associated with the elasticity management. A conceptual model of elasticity management enabling the description of deployment and application constraints, properties and elasticity strategies at different levels (depending on the internal application architecture or on the cloud infrastructure and platform) in an automatic way is needed. In this paper, we propose a domain specific language (DSL) based on a metamodel, which precisely specifies three main views: the cloud service models, the automatic elasticity management strategies and the internal cloud application architecture. We illustrate through a case study, the MAPE-K-based approach using different scenarios of automatic elasticity management.

Keywords: cloud computing; elasticity management; component-based application; model driven architecture; MDA; domain specific language; DSL; monitor analyse plan execute-knowledge; MAPE-K.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2019.103543

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2019 Vol.15 No.1/2, pp.58 - 71

Received: 24 May 2018
Accepted: 07 Oct 2018

Published online: 11 Nov 2019 *

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