A New Approach for Quality Management in Pervasive Computing Environments
This work addresses quality management for context-aware applications in pervasive computing, presenting an incremental extension to existing MDA frameworks.
The paper tackles quality control in pervasive computing environments by proposing CQ-MDA, an extension of MDA, which integrates quality and resource-awareness into design processes, demonstrated through a videoconference system.
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.