AMUSE Autonomic Management of Ubiquitous Systems for eHealth

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AMUSEAutonomic Management of UbiquitousSystems
for e-Health

• Prof. J. SventekUniversity of Glasgow
• joe_at_dcs.gla.ac.uk
• In collaboration with M. Sloman, E. Lupu, and N.
  Dulay of Imperial College London

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The AMUSE Project

• Imperial College
• University of Glasgow
• Start date February 2004
• Duration 36 Months
• Funded by the EPSRC under the e-Science Programme

Emil Lupu
Joe Sventek
Morris Sloman
Naranker Dulay
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Executive Summary

• Increasing complexity of distributed application
  systems leads customers to desire automated
  management of such systems.
• Work at Agilent/Glasgow has yielded an
  architectural pattern and an hierarchical
  architecture for closed-loop management of
  distributed application systems.
• Imperial has established itself as one of the
  premier research groups for policy-based
  management.
• AMUSE is focused on integrating these
  complementary competencies to address automated
  management of e-Health applications

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Policy-Based Management
Managed Objects
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A Ubiquitous Control Loop
Home Appliance Control
Master Control
PAN Control
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Self-Managed Cell
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Layered and Federated SMCs

• Layered SMCs application / services / network
• Peer SMCs (peer devices, peer networks, SLAs)

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SMC Composition
The enclosing SMC programs the nested SMCs
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SMC Interactions

• Layered - Network SMCs interact with application
  SMCs, the SMC controlling a heart rate monitor
  reports to a diagnostic management device,
• Federated, Peer-to-peer SMCs for peer devices
  interact with each other.
• SMC Composition Need to be able to compose SMCs
  into larger structures e.g., home patient
  monitoring SMCs program individual device SMCs

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Research Issues

• SMC Architecture
• What are the core components?
• How to add/remove devices, controllers, and
  management services dynamically extensibility
  How to instantiate and deploy SMCs?
• SMC Interactions
• How to define peer-to-peer negotiation and SLAs?
• How to refine higher level policies for lower
  level SMCs?
• How to expose/hide SMC management functionality

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AMUSE Work Packages

• The specification of generic and extensible SMCs.
  Within an SMC, the primary areas of research are
  the core services for Interaction/Adaptation,
  Policy, Context, and Measurement/Control.
• Investigations into the federation of SMCs, the
  layering of SMCs, and their integration with
  legacy management systems/technologies.
• Investigations into the composition of SMCs
  within a single administrative domain,
• The development of two e-Health prototypes to
  validate the SMC architecture.