In this position paper we motivate an important emerging class of applications that cooperate across a complex distributed computational fabric containing elements of widely varying capabilities, including physical and virtual sensors, actuators, and high-performance computational clusters and grids. We identify typical requirements of such applications and identify several novel research challenges that such applications pose. We sketch an evolving architecture developed as part of theMedia Broker project at Georgia Tech that solves a subset of the problems presented.
Citation:
Umakishore Ramachandran, Phillip Hutto, Bikash Agarwalla, Matthew Wolenetz, "A System Architecture for Distributed Control Loop Applications," ftdcs, pp.2, The Ninth IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS'03), 2003