Research Projects Wireless Sensor Network core Technologies/Systems Cross-layered protocols for multi-purposed WSN VIBE: Self-Adaptive Minimum Energy Routing for WSN Bio-Inspired Tools for WSN Tesserae: Component based Dynamic Reconfiguration for WSNs Beastie Wireless Sensor Nodes #### Environment and Infrastructure Management FUSE- Floodplain Underground Sensor Network. Real-time Monitoring and Operational Management of Water Transmission and Distribution Systems (lead by Civil Eng.) 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 structural monitoring Urban Heat: dynamic WSNs for inner city monitoring #### Smart Homes/Built Environment BoP! - Smart Aware Buildings and 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 Newer work Programming Languages for Context-aware systems, Routing over Multiple Mobile WSN sinks, In-network processing, Energy neutral WSN operation. Some Past Projects PATIA -Mighty Morphing Autonomic Web Server Go! - Highly Component-based OS KENDRA - Self-Adaptive Internet apps/caching MAGNET - Adaptive (mobile) OS resource management Text Retrieval using Multi-processing # (old, about to move to db ) Publications | Julie A McCann Reader in Computer Systems Department of Computing Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ, UK P: +44 (0)207 594 8375, F: +44 (0)207 581 802 4 jammATdoc.ic.ac.uk |
McCann's work centres around architectures, algorithms, protocols and tools that allow computer systems to self-adapt to their environment and self-organise to improve their performance, quality or ability to scale and survive. She leads the 10 strong Adaptive Embedded Systems Engineering (AESE) group. Computing systems are becoming more spatial and the boundaries between them and their environments are beginning to blur. This has brought many research challenges relating to the ability to get such systems to scale, remain robust when confronted with failure, maximise their usefulness while minimising energy consumption or better still be energy neutral. Such systems bring new demands beyond the metrics of throughput and response times. Today we look at behaviours, convergence, or purposeful lack of convergence, anarchical systems, systems that understand and match context etc. etc. To this end, McCann has been mainly researching and publishing work that centres on highly decentralised algorithms, protocols, cross-layered solutions to wireless sensor networks. Here, there is a particular focus on low-powered sensing nodes with some work on hybrid and hierarchical topologies. She also has some interests in Ubiquitous and Mobile computing (Internet of Things, if you will), specifically in context awareness, as well as Autonomic Computing. Her past, in computer performance, dynamic operating systems, database machines and text retrieval systems, has informed this work. For her earlier research in text retrieval, she was co-awarded Emerald Literati Network "Highly Commended". All her projects are interdisciplinary, applied to the arts or engineering and mainly funded by EPSRC/NERC/TSB national programmes, 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 has also been a consultant for TV and Film on occasion. 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 Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Systems (SASO'11), 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 lectures Operating Systems courses and the WSN component in the Pervasive Computing option. Go on! Test your knowledge of Computing! (old); Lecturer Inspiration