Research Article

A Multiagent System for Dynamic Data Aggregation in Medical Research

Table 1

Functionality and characteristics of virtual machines.

NameFunctionalityGuest OSCPURAMDisk

VM Router (router.virtualbox)Routing traffic from the virtualization environment to the Internet, hosting a DHCP server and DNS serverFreeBSD 10.1 x861 core512 GB8 GB
Orion Context Broker Instance (orion.virtualbox)Hosting an instance of the Orion Context BrokerCentOS 6 amd64/RHEL 6 amd642 cores4 GB20 GB
TuCSoN Node (tucsonX.virtualbox)Representing a node in the network (also requires JRE 8 to run Java code)Debian 8 amd642 cores1 GB8 GB
Database (mysql.virtualbox)Acting as a MySQL server as a storage backend for medical dataFreeBSD 10.1 amd642 cores2 GB20 GB