Research Projects

• Bio-Inspired Tools for WSN
• VIBE: Self-Adaptive Minimum Energy Routing for WSN
• Priorities, Routing and QoS in Multi-tasked WSN workloads
• Tesserae: Component based Dynamic Reconfiguration for WSNs
• Beastie Wireless Sensor Nodes

Environment and Infrastructure Management

• PIPES - Autonomic Wireless Sensor Networks for Water leakage and Asset Monitoring.
• Smart Infrastructure: WSN condition monitoring (using the Beastie Node)
• DOORS: heterogeneous WSN architectures for environmental monitoring
• Urban Heat: dynamic WSNs for inner city monitoring

Smart Homes/Built Environment

• BoP! - Smart Buildings through Autonomic Wireless Networks
• iPOJO - Context Aware Autonomic Home Control Middleware
• ANS - Autonomic Networked Services. Self-managing environment for ubiquitous computing
• Trust and context-awareness: Self-adaptive middleware for smart-home application

Some Past Projects

• PATIA -Mighty Morphing Autonomic Webserver
• Go! - Highly Component-based OS
• KENDRA - Self-Adaptive Internet apps/caching
• MAGNET - Adaptive (mobile) OS resource management
• Text Retrieval using Multi-processing

Publications

McCann's work centers around architectures, algorithms, protocols and tools that allow computer systems to self-adapt to their environment to improve their performance or quality therein. She has published extensively in the areas of computer performance, dynamic operating systems, database machines and text retrieval systems. More recent work has focused on self-adaptive and self-management of content delivery systems, mobile computing and wireless sensor networking algorithms. For her earlier work in text retrieval, she was recently co-awarded Emerald Literati Network "Highly Commended". To date, she has been PI on 13 major government/industry funded research projects, and is CI on three EPSRC Networks of excellence. She has supervised five PhD students to successful completion, examined many more and currently leads a nine strong team researching Self-adaptive and Bio-inspired Computing, which have developed the Beastie wireless sensor node.

All her projects are interdisciplinary, applied to the arts or engineering - collaborating with RCA; The University of the Arts; Interactive Institute Stockholm etc.; as well as many other industrial partnerships such as with Sun Microsystems, Thames and Severn Trent Water, BT, Arup Engineering and BBC to name but a few.

She is an active programme committee member for many of the self-managing adaptive computing journals and conferences. She has also co-chaired conferences such as IEEE Intl. Conf. on Complex Open Distributed Systems and the ACM Intl. Conf. on Pervasive Services 2008 and 2009 (General Chair). McCann is regularly invited to talk on self-adaptive computing to diverse audiences and has been an invited panel member ACM/IEEE International Conference in Autonomic Computing and IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management. She is a member of the BCS, IEEE and a Chartered Engineer.

McCann is currently on Sabbatical but usually lectures Operating Systems courses (all levels) and in the past has taken Database Systems (all levels) modules.

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