Applications and design issues for mobile agents in wireless sensor networks

Chen, Min; González-Valenzuela, Sergio; Leung, Victor C. M.

doi:10.1109/mwc.2007.4407223

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“…Related surveys focus on sensor nodes as agents [6,8] and mobile software agents [7]; they dissect these subjects well but do not mention about hardware agents and do not provide a general point of view.…”

Section: Classification Of Agent Technologies For Sensor Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Besides, agent-based paradigms may allow more efficient memory use in sensors. Due to local memory and processor constraints in sensor nodes, to embed and to run different codes in nodes are expensive or sometimes infeasible; therefore, the agent utilization allows dynamic applications to be deployed on the same WSN [7].…”

Section: Mobile Software Agentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…WISEMAN, later as named by Chen et al [7], is described by Gonzales et al [14] with its initial architectural design concepts. WISEMAN, which supports not only the SensorWare's capability of coarse-grained task coordination but also the Agilla's functionality on resource-limited nodes, seems to be a powerful agent-processing platform [7].…”

Section: Mobile Agent Middlewaresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Gerhard [5], firstly, the environment has to be open, highly dynamic, uncertain, or complex. Thus agents are very suitable to be deployed in the sensor network environment, where many approaches were proposed to solve the well-known problems in sensor networks by using agents [6][7][8].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that surveys the agent-based solutions for sensor networks by a detailed classification. There are some other survey papers related to agent approaches for sensor networks [6][7][8]; however, these lack a comprehensive classification of the agent technologies.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A survey of agent technologies for wireless sensor networks

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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) do not have a fixed infrastructure and consist of sensor nodes that perform sensing and communicating tasks. The WSNs have large application spectrum such as habitat monitoring, military surveillance, and target tracking, where sensor nodes may operate distributed in highly dynamic environments. Battery-constrained sensor nodes may aggregate the sensed data, localize themselves, and route the packets in an energy-efficient and decentralized manner to enable running the applications. Agents are capable of independent and autonomous action, so that they can successfully carry out tasks that have been delegated to them, thus agent-based approaches are very suitable to apply as the solution of the problems occurring in WSNs. So far many agent-based approaches were proposed for WSNs. This paper surveys the agent technologies for sensor networks by providing a classification, objectives and costs of these approaches with the open research problems. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that covers the intersection of the agent technology and sensor networks from a wide perspective.

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Section: Classification Of Agent Technologies For Sensor Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mobile Software Agentsmentioning

confidence: 99%