Newcastle University

Introduction

Summary of experience

1976-1977 Ministry of Defence

1979-1981 University of Newcastle upon Tyne, BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering and Computing Science (2.1)

1982-1986 GEC Avionics, Senior Systems Engineer, Future Computing Group

1986-1991 University of Newcastle upon Tyne, PhD and Postgraduate research into fault-tolerance in real-time parallel systems, Thesis title: "Preventing State Divergence in Replicated Distributed Systems"

1991-1996 Parallel Applications Centre, Leader Real Time Systems Group

1996-2002 Detica Limited, Principal Consultant

Academic interests

Pervasive computing, ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks, distributed computing, parallel systems, fault-tolerance, real-time systems, object oriented design, control systems, modelling and simulation, command and information systems.

Research Interests

Wireless sensor networks, smartdust

Other Expertise

real time systems, fault tolerant systems

Current Work

FP VI TRACKSS
FP VI EMMA

Undergraduate Teaching

CSC263 Computer systems and networks
CSC310 Real time programming in Java

• Kirusnapillai SJ, Arief B, Tully A, Blythe PT. Deploying Wireless Sensor Devices in Intelligent Transportation System Applications, Intelligent Transportation Systems. In: Abdel-Rahim, A, ed. Intelligent Transportation Systems. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech, 2012, pp.143-168.
• Selvarajah K, Tully A, Blythe PT. Application of ZigBee Technology in Intra-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications. In: 2nd European ZigBee Developers’ Conference. 2008, Munich, Germany: ZigBee Alliance.
• Katramados I, Barlow A, Selvarajah K, Shooter C, Tully A, Blythe PT. Heterogeneous Sensor Integration for Intelligent Transport Systems. In: Road Transport Information and Control - RTIC 2008 and ITS United Kingdom Members' Conference. 2008, Manchester, UK: Institution of Engineering and Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems UK.
• Katramados I, Barlow A, Selvarajah K, Shooter C, Tully A, Blythe P T. Heterogeneous sensor integration for intelligent transport systems. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1096.
• Selvarajah K, Tully A, Blythe PT. Integrating Smartdust into the Embedded Middleware in Mobility Applications (EMMA) Project. In: 4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE08). 2008, University of Washington, Seattle, USA: Institution of Engineering and Technology.
• He Y, Tully A. Query Processing for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1067.
• Selvarajah K, Tully A, Blythe PT. ZigBee for Intelligent Transport System Applications. In: Road Transport Information and Control - RTIC 2008 and ITS United Kingdom Members' Conference. 2008, Manchester, UK: Institution of Engineering and Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems UK.
• Selvarajah K, Tully A, Blythe PT. Zigbee for intelligent transport system applications. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1097.
• Jambli MN, Tully A, Selvarajah K, Lachenmann A. A Cross-Layer Framework Design for the Embedded Middleware in Mobility Applications (EMMA) Project. In: 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems. 2007, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: ACTA Press.
• Jambli M N, Tully A, Selvarajah K, Lachenmann A. A Cross-Layer Framework Design for the Embedded Middleware in Mobility Applications (EMMA) Project. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1036.
• Jambli MN, Tully A. Cross-Layer Design for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges. In: 37th annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks. 2007, Edinburgh, UK: IEEE Computer Society.
• Jambli MN, Tully A. Cross-Layer Design for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1011.
• Arief B, Blythe P, Fairchild R, Selvarajah K, Tully A. Integrating smartdust into intelligent transportation systems. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1062.
• Selvarajah K, Tully A. Smartdust and ZigBee for transport applications. In: 1st European ZigBee Developers’ Conference. 2007, Munich, Germany: ZigBee Alliance.
• Selvarajah K, Tully A. Smartdust and ZigBee for Transport Applications. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1035.
• Tully A, Blythe PT. Investigating the next generation mobile wireless technology to deliver a pervasive mobile pervasive computing environment for road user charging and other ITS services. In: The 1st IEE automotive electronics conference. 2005, London, UK: Institution of Electrical Engineers.
• Blythe PT, Tully A, Knight P, Walker J. Road User Charging in the UK. How will the technology evolve over the next 10 years to meet the future challenges of Nationwide charging schemes. In: 11th World Congress on ITS. 2004, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
• Tully A, Surridge M, Gordon P, Rogers E. Progress on the Development of Generic Tools for Real-Time Simulation and Control of Complex Systems. In: 3rd IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control. 1995, Ostend, Belgium: Pergamon Press.
• Shrivastava SK, Ezhilchelvan PD, Speirs NA, Tao S, Tully A. Principle Features of the VOLTAN Family of Reliable Node Architectures for Distributed Systems. IEEE Transactions on Computers (Special Issue on Fault-Tolerant Computing) 1992, 41(5), 542-549.
• Tully A. Distributed Programming on Transputer Networks - An Object Oriented Model for Concurrent Processing. In: 3rd International Conference on the Applications of Transputers. 1991, Glasgow, UK: IOS Press.
• Tully A. [PhD Thesis] Preventing State Divergence in Replicated Distributed Systems. Newcastle upon Tyne: Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1990.
• Tully A. Distributed Programming on Transputer Networks - An Object Oriented Interface to the Helios Operating System. In: 2nd International Conference on the Applications of Transputers. 1990, Southampton, UK: IOS Press.
• Tully A, Shrivastava SK. Preventing State Divergence in Replicated Distributed Programs. In: 9th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS-9). 1990, Huntsville, Alabama, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press.
• Ezhilchelvan PD, Shrivastava SK, Tully A. Constructing Replicated Systems Using Processors With Point to Point Communication Links. In: 16th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture. 1989, Jerusalem, Israel: IEEE Computer Society Press.