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ExCovery -- A Framework for Distributed System Experiments and a Case Study of Service Discovery

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Authors
Dittrich A., Wanja S., Malek M.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2014
Language
English
Abstract
Experiments are a fundamental part of science. They are needed when the system under evaluation is too complex to be analytically described and they serve to empirically validate hypotheses. This work presents the experimentation framework ExCovery for dependability analysis of distributed processes. It provides concepts that cover the description, execution, measurement and storage of experiments. These concepts foster transparency and repeatability of experiments for further sharing and comparison. ExCovery has been tried and refined in a manifold of dependability related experiments during the last two years. A case study is provided to describe service discovery as experiment process. A working prototype for IP networks runs on the Distributed Embedded System (DES) wireless testbed at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Conference proceedings
28th International Parallel \& Distributed Processing Symposium, Workshops and Phd Forum (IPDPSW)
Month
May
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Meeting place
Phoenix, AZ, USA
ISBN
978-1-4799-4116-2/14
Keywords
Distributed Systems, Experiment Framework, Experiments, Tool Description