Welcome to protoSDC model’s documentation!

Contents:

• Definitions
• Discovery
  • Address information
  • Action identifiers
  • Implicit discovery in Ad hoc Mode
  • Explicit discovery in Ad hoc Mode
  • Implicit discovery in Managed Mode
  • Explicit discovery in Managed Mode
  • Notification of Hello and Bye in Managed Mode
• Metadata
  • Getting Endpoint information and Metadata
• BICEPS Services
  • Message exchange patterns
  • Service types
  • Service mappings

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page

Introduction

Being a part of the IEEE 11073 SDC standards series, the Medical Devices Profile for Web Services aka MDPWS is used to be the vehicle to convey data between medical devices. However, MDPWS is based on stale standards like HTTP 1.1, Web Services and most prominently XML.

This results in a variety of different challenges which were the driving force to try out something new, i.e. coming up with an approach that references less standards, provides efficient serialization and implements publish-subscribe capabilities off the shelf. This lead to protoSDC which is based on gRPC, a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that leverages protobuf, Google’s language-neutral, platform-neutral, and extensible answer to XML. protoSDC provides a full-fledged transport layer definition for the Basic Integrated Clinical Environment Protocol Specification (BICEPS).

protoSDC model

In this project, you will find:

• Conversion of XML Schema to

  • protobuf message structures

  • kotlin data classes

  • rust structs

• BICEPS services modelled as gRPC services implementing Request-response and notification message exchange patterns

• Implicit and explicit endpoint discovery based on either ad-hoc (multicast) or managed (discovery proxy) mode

For more information visit https://model.protosdc.org