Prof. Keshav Meeting - Initial notes

I had a meeting with Prof. Keshav early in the project to bring me up to speed. This is basically what I got out of it.

Goals:

• Disconnection Tolerant
• Mobility Transparent
• Identity Management

Scenarios of Connectivity:

• Rural health clinic (no connectivity/deep region)
• Mobile medical worker moving between zones / home visitation (near/far connectivity)
• In a hospital with covered and uncovered regions (near connectivity)

Applications:

• Consultation with expert
• Upload/download notes
• Vector monitoring (spread of disease to new region)
• Epidemic monitoring

Task:

• Requirements
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Availability
  • User experience / ease of use
• required changes to existing architecture