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AMUSE: autonomic management of ubiquitous e‐Health systems
Author(s) -
Lupu E.,
Dulay N.,
Sloman M.,
Sventek J.,
Heeps S.,
Strowes S.,
Twidle K.,
Keoh S.L.,
SchaefferFilho A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.1194
Subject(s) - ubiquitous computing , autonomic computing , computer science , assisted living , human–computer interaction , wireless , ambient intelligence , multimedia , telecommunications , medicine , cloud computing , gerontology , operating system
Future e‐Health systems will consist of low‐power on‐body wireless sensors attached to mobile users that interact with an ubiquitous computing environment to monitor the health and well being of patients in hospitals or at home. Patients or health practitioners have very little technical computing expertise so these systems need to be self‐configuring and self‐managing with little or no user input. More importantly, they should adapt autonomously to changes resulting from user activity, device failure, and the addition or loss of services. We propose the Self‐Managed Cell (SMC) as an architectural pattern for all such types of ubiquitous computing applications and use an e‐Health application in which on‐body sensors are used to monitor a patient living in their home as an exemplar. We describe the services comprising the SMC and discuss cross‐SMC interactions as well as the composition of SMCs into larger structures. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.