A New Approach for Quality Management in Pervasive Computing Environments

TL;DR

This paper introduces CQ-MDA, an extension of MDA, for quality management in pervasive computing environments, enabling context-aware quality control and reconfigurable architectures.

Contribution

It presents a novel meta-model and model-driven approach for architecture quality control considering context and resources in pervasive systems.

Findings

Meta-model for architecture quality control

Model-driven approach for reconfigurable architectures

Validated with a videoconference system

Abstract

This paper provides an extension of MDA called Context-aware Quality Model Driven Architecture (CQ-MDA) which can be used for quality control in pervasive computing environments. The proposed CQ-MDA approach based on ContextualArchRQMM (Contextual ARCHitecture Quality Requirement MetaModel), being an extension to the MDA, allows for considering quality and resources-awareness while conducting the design process. The contributions of this paper are a meta-model for architecture quality control of context-aware applications and a model driven approach to separate architecture concerns from context and quality concerns and to configure reconfigurable software architectures of distributed systems. To demonstrate the utility of our approach, we use a videoconference system.