Policy-based Model-driven Pervasive Service Creation and Adaptation (PANDA)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Essex
Department Name: Computing and Electronic Systems1
Abstract
Recent years have seen a significant increase in research and development of mobile and wireless networks (MWN), including UMTS, IEEE 802.11, mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, etc. The future success of MWN systems lie in its ability to provide users with cost-effective services that have the potential to run anywhere, anytime and on any device without (with little) user attention. Services of these features are termed as pervasive services. Obviously creating such services of high adaptability is challenging. PANDA project is inspired by this challenge and proposes a novel methodology that will enable to create pervasive services in a user-friendly and automated way and to execute services in an adaptive manner. PANDA advocates the shift of the pervasive service engineering attention from the effort of building a service supporting environment to the emphasis on the pervasive service internal logic itself. To this end, PANDA will investigate the idea of utilizing policy-based management (PBM) method to describe and control the internal logic of pervasive services in a flexible way and the idea of utilizing layered models to describe the implementing code of pervasive services. In particular, a specific service description language utilizing PBM will be investigated so as to grant intelligence into pervasive services while keeping it adaptable to any contextual change. All these thoughts encourage the further decoupling of services from their underlying networks. The above methodology will be implemented into an open software platform and be evaluated by a real-life service scenario on the project testbed.
People |
ORCID iD |
Kun Yang (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Ou S
(2007)
An effective offloading middleware for pervasive services on mobile devices
in Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Yang K
(2007)
Policy-based model-driven creation of adaptive services in wireless environments
in IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
Yang K
(2007)
QoS-aware routing in emerging heterogeneous wireless networks[Quality-of-Service-Based Routing Algorithms for Heterogeneous Networks]
in IEEE Communications Magazine
Yang K
(2007)
A Multihop Peer-Communication Protocol With Fairness Guarantee for IEEE 802.16-Based Vehicular Networks
in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Ou S
(2008)
A Selective Downlink Scheduling Algorithm to Enhance Quality of VOD Services for WAVE Networks
in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Kun Yang
(2008)
On effective offloading services for resource-constrained mobile devices running heavier mobile Internet applications
in IEEE Communications Magazine
Yang K
(2008)
A location-based service advertisement algorithm for pervasive service discovery in wireless mobile networks
in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Yang K
(2009)
QoS-Aware Service Selection Algorithms for Pervasive Service Composition in Mobile Wireless Environments
in Mobile Networks and Applications
Achilleos A
(2010)
Context modelling and a context-aware framework for pervasive service creation: A model-driven approach
in Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Lu X
(2012)
An elastic resource allocation algorithm enabling wireless network virtualization An elastic resource allocation algorithm
in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Description | to describe and control the internal logic of pervasive services in a flexible way and the idea of utilizing layered models to describe the implementing code of pervasive services |
Exploitation Route | spin-off company or more engagement with relevant industrial partners |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education |
URL | http://dclgw.essex.ac.uk/index.php/projects/completed/panda1 |
Description | A few publications were generated out of this project. There is some interest from industries. However there is no concrete application of the result to any industrial products yet. |
First Year Of Impact | 2009 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
Description | British Telecommunications Plc |
Organisation | BT Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
Start Year | 2006 |