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Using Non-Intrusive Instrumentation to Analyze any Distributed Middleware in Real-Time

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Dynamic Binary Instrumentation (DBI) is one way to monitor a distributed system in real-time without modifying source code. Previous work has shown it is possible to instrument distributed systems using standards-based distributed middleware. Existing work, however, only applies to a single middleware, such as CORBA.


This thesis therefore presents a tool named the Standards-based Distributed Middleware Monitor (SDMM), which generalizes two modern standards-based distributed middleware, the Data Distribution Service (DDS) and gRemote Procedure Call (gRPC). SDMM uses DBI to extract values and other data relevant to monitoring a distributed system in real-time. Using dynamic instrumentation allows SDMM to capture information without a priori knowledge of the distributed system under instrumentation. We applied SDMM to systems created with two DDS vendors, RTI Connext DDS and OpenDDS, as well as gRPC which is a complete remote procedure call framework. Our results show that the data collection process contributes to less than 2% of the run-time overhead in all test cases.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:IUPUI/oai:scholarworks.iupui.edu:1805/25951
Date05 1900
CreatorsLui, Nyalia
ContributorsHill, James H., Raje, Rajeev, Song, Fengguang
Source SetsIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
RightsAttribution 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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