The Autonomic Architecture of the Licas System
This is an incremental contribution for developers building distributed systems, particularly in IoT and mobile contexts.
The paper presents Licas, a distributed framework for building service-based systems with autonomic capabilities, focusing on its autonomic setup and novel linking mechanism.
Licas (lightweight internet-based communication for autonomic services) is a distributed framework for building service-based systems. The framework provides a p2p server and more intelligent processing of information through its AI algorithms. Distributed communication includes XML-RPC, REST, HTTP and Web Services. It can now provide a robust platform for building different types of system, where Microservices or SOA would be possible. However, the system may be equally suited for the IoT, as it provides classes to connect with external sources and has an optional Autonomic Manager with a MAPE control loop integrated into the communication process. The system is also mobile-compatible with Android. This paper focuses in particular on the autonomic setup and how that might be used. A novel linking mechanism has been described previously and is considered again, as part of the autonomous framework.