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The concern for Quality of Service (QoS) management in middleware has been an area of active research for many years. We present a novel QoS management framework for .NET, called DotQoS, which adds generic QoS management to .NET in an architecturally conforming way. It is shown how built-in .NET features such as reflection, interception, and custom meta-data facilitate the QoS integration. Throughout the paper we compare the design and implementation of DotQoS to a CORBA-based QoS framework that we developed in a previous project. Our experience with the two frameworks reveals general insights into the principles of middleware QoS engineering.
The work presented in this paper is partially funded by the European QCCS project, IST-1999-20122, the German DFG project GE 776/4, and the Discourse project.
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Ulbrich, A., Weis, T., Geihs, K., Becker, C. (2003). DotQoS — A QoS Extension for .NET Remoting. In: Jeffay, K., Stoica, I., Wehrle, K. (eds) Quality of Service — IWQoS 2003. IWQoS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44884-5_20
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