TY - GEN
T1 - A framework for the safe interoperability of medical devices in the presence of network failures
AU - Kim, Cheolgi
AU - Sun, Mu
AU - Mohan, Sibin
AU - Yun, Heechul
AU - Sha, Lui
AU - Abdelzaher, Tarek F.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - There exists a growing need for automated interoperability among medical devices in modern healthcare systems. This requirement is not just for convenience, but to prevent the possibility of errors due to the complexity of interactions between the devices and human operators. Hence, a system supporting such interoperability is supposed to provide the means to interconnect distributed medial devices in an open space, so must be designed to account for network failures. In this paper, we introduce a generic framework, the Network-Aware Supervisory System (NASS) to integrate medical devices into such a clinical interoperability system that uses real networks. It provides a development environment, in which medical-device supervisory logic can be developed based on the assumptions of an ideal, robust network. A case study shows that the NASS framework provides the same procedural effectiveness as the original logic based on the ideal network model but with protection against real-world network failures.
AB - There exists a growing need for automated interoperability among medical devices in modern healthcare systems. This requirement is not just for convenience, but to prevent the possibility of errors due to the complexity of interactions between the devices and human operators. Hence, a system supporting such interoperability is supposed to provide the means to interconnect distributed medial devices in an open space, so must be designed to account for network failures. In this paper, we introduce a generic framework, the Network-Aware Supervisory System (NASS) to integrate medical devices into such a clinical interoperability system that uses real networks. It provides a development environment, in which medical-device supervisory logic can be developed based on the assumptions of an ideal, robust network. A case study shows that the NASS framework provides the same procedural effectiveness as the original logic based on the ideal network model but with protection against real-world network failures.
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U2 - 10.1145/1795194.1795215
DO - 10.1145/1795194.1795215
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77954615585
SN - 9781450300667
T3 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, ICCPS '10
SP - 149
EP - 158
BT - Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, ICCPS '10
T2 - 1st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, ICCPS 2010
Y2 - 13 April 2010 through 15 April 2010
ER -