Accessing remote instrumentation worldwide is one of the goals
of e-Science. The task of enabling the execution of complex
experiments that involve the use of distributed scientific
instruments must be supported by a number of different
architectural domains, which inter-work in a coordinated fashion to
provide the necessary functionality. These domains embrace the
physical instruments, the communication network interconnecting the
distributed systems, the service oriented abstractions and their
middleware. The Grid paradigm (or, more generally, the Service
Oriented Architecture -- SOA), viewed as a tool for the integration
of distributed resources, plays a significant role, not only to
manage computational aspects, but increasingly as an aggregator of
measurement instrumentation and pervasive large-scale data
acquisition platforms. In this context, the functionality of a SOA
allows managing, maintaining and exploiting heterogeneous
instrumentation and acquisition devices in a unified way, by
providing standardized interfaces and common working environments
to their users, but the peculiar aspects of dealing with real
instruments of widely different categories may add new functional
requirements to this scenario. On the other hand, the growing
transport capacity of core and access networks allows data transfer
at unprecedented speed, but new challenges arise from wireless
access, wireless sensor networks, and the traversal of
heterogeneous network domains.
The book focuses on all aspects related to the effective
exploitation of remote instrumentation and to the building complex
virtual laboratories on top of real devices and infrastructures.
These include SOA and related middleware, high-speed networking in
support of Grid applications, wireless Grids for acquisition
devices and sensor networks, Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning
for real-time control, measurement instrumentation and methodology,
as well as metrology issues in distributed systems.
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