IRMOS

The overriding objective of IRMOS is to enable ‘Real-time’ interaction between people and applications over a Service Oriented Infrastructure, where processing, storage and networking need to be combined and delivered with guaranteed levels of service. IRMOS aims to innovate in this field by enabling “soft real-time” applications to be delivered through value chains that span organizational boundaries and cover a distributed set of people and resources. IRMOS is set apart from SOI through a set of key features. This project will provide a Real-time Framework as a single infrastructure with real-time attributes at all levels (network, processing, storage, application, workflow and business) and provision of Quality of Service Guarantees. Furthermore, while this infrastructure is considered to be cross-organizational, allowing the distribution of interactive real-time applications, it provides at the same time the appropriate levels of confidence that these applications will be delivered in a predictable, reliable and efficient way.

The following innovations will be contributed by the IRMOS project:

i.          A platform of services that enables real-time interaction between people and applications.

ii.          An intelligent network infrastructure that not just manages the network bandwidth, but also takes into account several QoS aspects like delay and jitter, when network paths for a service have to be selected and enables automated SLA negotiation and monitoring.

iii.         An integrated optimization approach at various levels from inter-organization business processes and SLAs to intelligent networking and virtualization techniques that enable real-time interaction and concurrency at all points of the distributed value chains.

iv.         Software tools and associated modeling environments to enable real-time interactive applications to be written to target the IRMOS framework.

v.         Specification languages that unify various parameters and characteristics used to describe real-time applications on SOIs, and allow value chain participants to collaborate in the design, deployment and execution of networks of services.