Adaptive Middleware for Dynamic Component-level Deployment

Utility hosting centers can reduce resource consumption by opti-mally distributing and load balancing their client's application components. However, current state-of-the-art middleware sys-tems either rely on the application to deploy itself, and/or provide the hosting center with course-grained and static deployment mechanisms. In this paper, we present our adaptive middleware system and API that allows the hosting-center to dynamically ex-change component-level deployment generators for all hosted ap-plications. To demonstrate our system's capabilities, we provide experimental results on the speed and effectiveness of dynamic deployment strategies