Dr. Stephen D. Strowes

AMUSe

Autonomic Management of Ubiquitous Systems for e-Health

September 2005 -- May 2007

Research Associate and lead software developer on the AMUSe (Autonomic Management of Ubiquitous Systems in e-Health) project, an EPSRC-funded collaborative project between University of Glasgow and Imperial College London.

AMUSe concerned itself with demonstrating and exploring a repeatable management architecture suitable for various environments, from wireless personal-area networks controlled by a PDA, to geographically distributed wide-area networks. This architecture included integrated management components (policy and discovery services) and mechanisms for delivering management content to subscribers (event bus). These components combined create a Self-Managed Cell (SMC), each instance of which has policies to allow interactions with other SMCs.

Our primary usage scenario included hospital outpatients wearing sensors in a personal-area network to constantly monitor their condition, these sensors communicating with a central management component (perhaps as powerful as a PDA) which monitors wireless components and collects data. Patient SMCs interacted doctor SMCs, hospital SMCs, etc. Interactions between these autonomous cells also formed a substantial part of the project. My time on this project involved:

• Developing software required to run over these wireless systems. Development primarily in C/Java, with some JNI glue tying components together. Required the integration of disparate codebases: e.g., an in-house event bus and discovery system, a policy-based management system authored at Imperial College, and existing communication libraries (e.g., libbluetooth). Development across multiple hardware platforms was also required.
• Authoring or second-authoring papers to a variety of venues on various aspects of the AMUSe project, and its solutions for ubiquitous systems.
• Delivering a number of presentations, at workshops and regular group meetings.

HP iPAQ Linux information

The following are potentially useful links for anybody running Linux on their hx4700; I provide these almost as brain-dumps, or as future reference for myself, in the hope that somebody else might find them useful too.

• Running JBlueZ on the hx4700.
• Kernel compilation for the hx4700.
• Using the hx4700 as a USB host.