Communication mechanisms and middleware for distributed video surveillance

A new generation of advanced surveillance systems is being conceived as a collection of multi-sensor components such as video, audio and mobile robots interacting in a cooperating manner to enhance situation awareness capabilities to assist surveillance personnel. The prominent issues that these systems face are: the improvement of existing intelligent video surveillance systems, the inclusion of wireless networks, the use of low power sensors, the design architecture, the communication between different components, the fusion of data emerging from different type of sensors, the location of personnel (providers and consumers) and the scalability of the system. This paper focuses on the aspects pertaining to real-time distributed architecture and scalability. For example, to meet real-time requirements, these systems need to process data streams in concurrent environments, designed by taking into account scheduling and synchronisation. The paper proposes a framework for the design of visual surveillance systems based on components derived from the principles of Real Time Networks/Data Oriented Requirements Implementation Scheme (RTN/DORIS). It also proposes the implementation of these components using the well-known middleware technology Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). Results using this architecture for video surveillance are presented through an implemented prototype.

Application execution management on the InteGrade opportunistic grid middleware

The InteGrade project is a multi-university effort to build a novel grid computing middleware based on the opportunistic use of resources belonging to user workstations. The InteGrade middleware currently enables the execution of sequential, bag-of-tasks, and parallel applications that follow the BSP or the MPI programming models. This article presents the lessons learned over the last five years of the InteGrade development and describes the solutions achieved concerning the support for robust application execution. The contributions cover the related fields of application scheduling, execution management, and fault tolerance. We present our solutions, describing their implementation principles and evaluation through the analysis of several experimental results. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Semantic Distributed Messaging Middleware

Messaging middleware provides asynchronous communication between services in distributed environments. However, security, reliability and performance issues compel such middleware to be distributed, and distribution throws up its own problems such as identifying messaging channels which could then be subscribed to. In particular, interested parties need to identify channels defined in remote locations while not knowing details of how they are defined. A common vocabulary using semantic descriptions offers a solution to this problem. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of federated messaging middleware using semantic description of channels.

A novel middleware based web database model

In this paper, we propose a novel model for web-based database systems based on the multicast and anycast' protocols. In the model, we design a middleware, castway, which locates between the database server and the Web server. Every castway in a distributed system operates as a multicast node and an anycast node independently, respectively. The proposed mechanism can balance the workload among the distributed database servers, and offers the "best" server to serve for a query. Three algorithms are employed for the model: the requirement-based probing algorithm for anycast routing, the atomic multicast update algorithm for database synchronization, and the job deviation algorithm for system workload balance. The simulations and experiments show that the proposed model works very well.

Sensor grid middleware metamodeling and analysis

Sensor grid is a platform that combines wireless sensor networks and grid computing with the aim of exploiting the complementary advantages of the two systems. Proper integration of these distinct systems into effective, logically single platform is challenging. This paper presents an approach for practical sensor grid implementation and management. The proposed approach uses a metamodeling technique and performance analysis and tuning as well as a middleware infrastructure that enable practical sensor grid implementation and management. The paper presents our implementation and analysis of the sensor grid. © 2014 Srimathi Chandrasekaran et al.

Um Middleware reflexivo para apoiar o desenvolvimento de aplicações com requisitos de segurança

Muitos aplicativos atuais, envolvendo diversos domínios de conhecimento, são estruturados como arquiteturas de software que incorporam, além dos requisitos funcionais, requisitos não funcionais, como segurança, por exemplo. Tais requisitos podem constituir um domínio próprio, e, portanto, serem comuns a várias outras arquiteturas de software. Tecnologias como Programação Orientada a Aspectos, Reflexão Computacional e Padrões de Projeto colaboram no desenvolvimento de arquiteturas que provêem a separação de requisitos não funcionais. Porém, sua experimentação e adoção no domínio da segurança computacional ainda é incipiente. O foco deste trabalho é a elaboração de um padrão de projeto voltado à segurança, utilizando como arquitetura conceitual programação orientada a aspectos, e como arquitetura de implementação, reflexão computacional. A composição destas tecnologias resulta em um middleware orientado à segurança, voltado a aplicações desenvolvidas em Java. Estuda-se as tecnologias, seus relacionamentos com a área de segurança, seguido da proposta de uma arquitetura de referência, a partir da qual é extraído um protótipo do middleware de segurança. Este, por sua vez, provê mecanismos de segurança tão transparentes quanto possível para as aplicações que suporta. Com o objetivo de realizar a implementação do middleware de segurança, também são estudadas os mecanismos de segurança da plataforma Java, porém limitado ao escopo deste trabalho. Segue-se o estudo da base conceitual das tecnologias de Reflexão Computacional, o modelo de implementação, seguido de Programação Orientada a Aspectos, o modelo conceitual, e, por fim, têm-se os Padrões de Projeto, a arquitetura de referência. Integrando as três tecnologias apresentadas, propõe-se um modelo, que estabelece a composição de um Padrão Proxy, estruturado de acordo com a arquitetura reflexiva. Este modelo de arquitetura objetiva implementar o aspecto de segurança de acesso a componentes Java, de forma não intrusiva,. Baseado no modelo, descreve-se a implementação dos diversos elementos do middleware, estruturados de forma a ilustrar os conceitos propostos. Ao final, apresenta-se resultados obtidos durante a elaboração deste trabalho, bem como críticas e sugestões de trabalhos futuros.

Um middleware como interface padrão para acesso a dispositivos biomédicos

A grande diversidade na arquitetura de dispositivos de hardware, aliada aos seus diferentes protocolos de comunicação, tem dificultado a implementação de sistemas que necessitam realizar o acesso a esses dispositivos. Diante dessas diferenças, surge a necessidade de prover o acesso a esses dispositivos de forma transparente. Neste sentido, o presente trabalho propõe um middleware mult entrada e saída para acesso a dispositivos, como forma de abstrair o mecanismo de escrita e leitura de dados em dispositivos de hardware, contribuindo desta forma, para o aumento na produtividade dos sistemas, uma vez que os desenvolvedores estão focados apenas nos seus requisitos funcionais

GATE - Uma abordagem baseada em middleware para aplicações interperceptivas envolvendo múltiplos dispositivos

In this work, we present the GATE, an approach based on middleware for interperceptive applications. Through the services offered by the GATE, we extension we extend the concept of Interperception for integration with several devices, including set-top box, mobile devices (cell phones), among others. Through this extension ensures the implementation of virtual environments in these devices. Thus, users who access the version of the computer environment may interact with those who access the same environment by other devices. This extension is just a part of the services provided by the GATE, that remerges as a new proposal for multi-user virtual environments creation.

Modelo arquitetural de comunicação para monitoramento de pacientes baseado em middleware, computação móvel e ubíqua

Hospital Automation is an area that is constantly growing. The emergency of new technologies and hardware is transforming the processes more efficient. Nevertheless, some of the hospital processes are still being performed manually, such as monitoring of patients that is considered critical because it involves human lives. One of the factors that should be taken into account during a monitoring is the agility to detect any abnormality in vital signs of patients, as well as warning of this anomaly to the medical team involved. So, this master's thesis aims to develop an architecture to automate this process of monitoring and reporting of possible alert to a professional, so that emergency care can be done effectively. The computing mobile was used to improve the communication by distributing messages between a central located into the hospital and the mobile carried by the duty