The Jini Specifications
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From October, 2004 until July, 2006 project Neuromancer investigated the infrastructure needed to build large-scale telemetry networks. The particular application that was targeted assumed that there would soon be low-cost, widely available medical sensors. The goal of the project was to look at the sort of system that would be needed to allow such sensors to be deployed over an entire population for long periods of time. Such a system, given the scope of both the geographic coverage area, the amount of information that would need to be stored and analyzed, and the length of time that the system would need to run, required a distributed system with properties different from those that have been built up to now. This paper is a report on the Neuromancer project. We first set out the goals for the system, indicating not only what the system was intended to do but also who the intended customers were. We then describe some of the research challenges that were inherent in the system; these range from those that grow out of the scale of the system to those having to do with the need for security and privacy in the intended domain. We then discuss the overall approach that the team took to those problems. We then turn to some of the results that were produced during the investigation. Finally, we will discuss the challenges that led to the discontinuation of the project.