4th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

Research Article

Self-Managed Cell: A Middleware for Managing Body-Sensor Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/MOBIQ.2007.4451009,
        author={Sye  Loong Keoh and Naranker Dulay and Emil Lupu and Kevin Twidle and Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho and Morris Slom and Steven Heeps and Stephen Strowes and Joe Sventek},
        title={Self-Managed Cell: A Middleware for Managing Body-Sensor Networks},
        proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS},
        year={2008},
        month={2},
        keywords={adaptive sensing  autonomic management  policy-based adaptation  reconfigurable networks},
        doi={10.1109/MOBIQ.2007.4451009}
    }
    
  • Sye Loong Keoh
    Naranker Dulay
    Emil Lupu
    Kevin Twidle
    Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho
    Morris Slom
    Steven Heeps
    Stephen Strowes
    Joe Sventek
    Year: 2008
    Self-Managed Cell: A Middleware for Managing Body-Sensor Networks
    MOBIQUITOUS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/MOBIQ.2007.4451009
Sye Loong Keoh1,*, Naranker Dulay1,*, Emil Lupu1,*, Kevin Twidle1,*, Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho1,*, Morris Slom1,*, Steven Heeps2,*, Stephen Strowes2,*, Joe Sventek2,*
  • 1: Department of Computing, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
  • 2: Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 17, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ,
*Contact email: slk@imperial.ac.uk, n.dulay@imperial.ac.uk, e.lupu@imperial.ac.uk, k.twidle@imperial.ac.uk, aschaeff@imperial.ac.uk, m.sloman@imperial.ac.uk, heeps@dcs.gla.ac.uk, sds@dcs.gla.ac.uk, joe@dcs.gla.ac.uk

Abstract

Body sensor networks consisting of low-power onbody wireless sensors attached to mobile users will be used in the future to monitor the health and well being of patients in hospitals or at home. Such systems need to adapt autonomously to changes in context, user activity, device failure, and the availability or loss of services. To this end, we propose a policybased architecture that uses the concept of a Self-Managed Cell (SMC) to integrate services, managed resources and a policy interpreter by means of an event bus. Policies permit the declarative specification of adaptation strategy for selfconfiguration and self-management. We present the design and implementation of the SMC and describe its potential use in a scenario for management of heart monitoring. Preliminary performance measurements are also presented and discussed.