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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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T1 - The RUNES middleware for networked embedded systems and its application in a disaster management scenario
AU - Costa, Paolo
AU - Coulson, Geoff
AU - Gold, Richard
AU - Lad, Manish
AU - Mascolo, Cecilia
AU - Mottola, Luca
AU - Picco, Gian Pietro
AU - Sivaharan, Thirunavukkarasu
AU - Weerasinghe, Nirmal
AU - Zachariadis, Stefanos
AU - Coulson, Geoffrey
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Due to the inherent nature of their heterogeneity, resource scarcity and dynamism, the provision of middleware for future networked embedded environments is a challenging task. In this paper we present a middleware approach that addresses these key challenges; we also discuss its application in a realistic networked embedded environment. Our application scenario involves fire management in a road tunnel that is instrumented with networked sensor and actuator devices. These devices are able to reconfigure their behaviour and their information dissemination strategies as they become damaged under emergency conditions, and firefighters are able to coordinate their operations and manage sensors and actuators through dynamic reprogramming. Our supporting middleware is based on a two-level architecture: the foundation is a language-independent, component-based programming model that is sufficiently minimal to run on any of the devices typically found in networked embedded environments. Above this is a layer of software components that offer the necessary middleware functionality. Rather than providing a monolithic middleware 'layer', we separate orthogonal areas of middleware functionality into self-contained components that can be selectively and individually deployed according to current resource constraints and application needs. Crucially, the set of such components can be updated at runtime to provide the basis of a highly dynamic and reconfigurable system.
AB - Due to the inherent nature of their heterogeneity, resource scarcity and dynamism, the provision of middleware for future networked embedded environments is a challenging task. In this paper we present a middleware approach that addresses these key challenges; we also discuss its application in a realistic networked embedded environment. Our application scenario involves fire management in a road tunnel that is instrumented with networked sensor and actuator devices. These devices are able to reconfigure their behaviour and their information dissemination strategies as they become damaged under emergency conditions, and firefighters are able to coordinate their operations and manage sensors and actuators through dynamic reprogramming. Our supporting middleware is based on a two-level architecture: the foundation is a language-independent, component-based programming model that is sufficiently minimal to run on any of the devices typically found in networked embedded environments. Above this is a layer of software components that offer the necessary middleware functionality. Rather than providing a monolithic middleware 'layer', we separate orthogonal areas of middleware functionality into self-contained components that can be selectively and individually deployed according to current resource constraints and application needs. Crucially, the set of such components can be updated at runtime to provide the basis of a highly dynamic and reconfigurable system.
U2 - 10.1109/PERCOM.2007.36
DO - 10.1109/PERCOM.2007.36
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 978-0-7695-2787-1
SN - 0-7695-2787-6
SP - 69
EP - 78
BT - Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Proceedings
PB - IEEE COMPUTER SOC
CY - LOS ALAMITOS
T2 - 5th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Y2 - 19 March 2007 through 23 March 2007
ER -