Self Adaptation Targeting Intergrated Networks (SATIN)

Stefanos Zachariadis
Kindly sponsored by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

There is growing interest, both in research and practise in self-organising systems, systems that can adapt to accommodate a new set of requirements. Mobile systems are an extreme instance of highly dynamic distributed systems; mobile applications are typically hosted by resource-constrained environments and may have to dynamically reorganise in response to unforeseeable changes of user needs, to the heterogeneity and connectivity challenges from the computational environment, as well as to changes to the execution context and physical environment. In the SATIN (Self-Adaptation Targeting Integrated Networks) project, we argue that mobile computing systems can benefit from the use of self-organisation primitives. In particular, we argue that the application of logical mobility primitives as well as the componentisation of the system assist in building self-organising mobile systems. We show that a component model is required by the application of logical mobility primitives for self-organisation, and discuss one. We also show how the primitives can be made available to application programmers using a light-weight component-based middleware and discuss one.

Related publications:

Stefanos Zachariadis, Cecilia Mascolo and Wolfgang Emmerich. "SATIN: A Component Model for Mobile Self-Organisation". In. Proc. of Int. Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA). October 2004, Agia Napa, Cyprus. [view]
Stefanos Zachariadis and Cecilia Mascolo. "Adaptable Mobile Applications Through SATIN: Exploiting Logical Mobility in Mobile Computing Middleware". In. Proc. of 1st UK-UbiNet Workshop. September 2003, London, United Kingdom. [view]
Stefanos Zachariadis, Cecilia Mascolo and Wolfgang Emmerich. "Adaptable Mobile Applications: Exploiting Logical Mobility in Mobile Computing". In Proc. of 5th Int. Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA03). October 2003, Marrakech, Morocco. [view]
Stefanos Zachariadis, Cecilia Mascolo and Wolfgang Emmerich. "Exploiting Logical Mobility in Mobile Computing Middleware". In Proc. of 22nd Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems - WORKSHOPS (ICDCS 2002 Workshops). July 2002, Vienna, Austria. [view]
Licia Capra, Cecilia Mascolo, Stefanos Zachariadis and Wolfgang Emmerich. "Towards a Mobile Computing Middleware: a Synergy of Reflection and Mobile Code Techniques". In Proc. of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS'2001). Bologna, Italy. October 2001. [view]

Contact: Stefanos Zachariadis.
Supervised by: Dr. Cecilia Mascolo and Dr. Wolfgang Emmerich