1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A SLA-Based Service Process Management Approach for SOA

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344791,
        author={Zhang   Nan and Xue-song  Qiu and  Luo-ming  Meng},
        title={A SLA-Based Service Process Management Approach for SOA},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2007},
        month={4},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344791}
    }
    
  • Zhang Nan
    Xue-song Qiu
    Luo-ming Meng
    Year: 2007
    A SLA-Based Service Process Management Approach for SOA
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344791
Zhang Nan1, Xue-song Qiu1, Luo-ming Meng1,*
  • 1: State Key Lab. of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
*Contact email: metar@163.com

Abstract

Service process management as a solution to effectively manage publication, discovery, negotiation, deployment, and implementation of services is increasingly important in SOA using Web services. Although SLA has played a crucial role in service management with the services evolving to the direction of diversification, personality, and QoS assurance, there are still many challenges that need to be investigated to develop the SLA-based service process management approach for SOA. In this paper, a SLA-based service process management approach for SOA is introduced. An extended architecture with additional roles and information of SOA based on SLA is provided. Furthermore, a service process management architecture is introduced based on a "flow-through" vertical analytic method, and then the implementation of closed-loop service management process with feedback mechanism using prepared and customized services based on "full-lifecycle" horizontal analytic method is discussed. Finally, a prototype is designed and realized to validate the proposed integrated approach of service process management