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Abstractions to Support Interactions Between Self-Managed Cells

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Inter-Domain Management (AIMS 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCCN,volume 4543))

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Management of pervasive systems cannot rely on human intervention nor centralised decision-making functions due to their complex and intrinsically mobile nature. In previous work, we proposed the concept of a self-managed cell (SMC) as an architectural pattern for building ubiquitous applications. A SMC consists of hardware and software components that form an autonomous administrative domain. SMCs may be realised at different scales, from body-area networks, to an entire room or larger settings. However, to scale to larger systems it is necessary for SMCs to collaborate with each other, to federate or compose in larger SMC structures. We describe here the main abstractions we have defined and explore future directions towards this goal.

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  1. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, 180 Queen’s Gate, SW7 2AZ, London, England

    Alberto Schaeffer-Filho & Emil Lupu

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Schaeffer-Filho, A., Lupu, E. (2007). Abstractions to Support Interactions Between Self-Managed Cells. In: Bandara, A.K., Burgess, M. (eds) Inter-Domain Management. AIMS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72986-0_15

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