Towards a FIPA compliant multiagent based middleware architecture for sensor networks

Abstract

Abstract-In this paper we suggest a multiagent based middleware architecture that is particularly suitable for supporting wireless sensor network deployments in industrial environments like mines and chemical processing plants. Our intention is to make the proposed middleware architecture to be as closely aligned to the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents standards as possible. The existing agent based solutions for wireless sensor networks lack some important features that these standards mandate and thus reduce their interoperability with other existing or upcoming agent based systems. These standards that we choose for our middleware have the potential of providing a more reliable event reporting mechanism than the one supported by existing agent based middleware.

ACDMCP:An Adaptive and Completely Distributed Multi-Hop Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

“…Since only a subset of the nodes (CHs) is involved in forwarding such event notifications, the overall communication costs could be kept low. Another similar application of clustering is in approaches which model the network as a multiagent system involving both mobile and static agents [1]. In such a system, the mobile agents can be thought of as mobile event producers and consumers and the static agents as the static event producers and consumers that are associated with a particular node in the network.…”

“…Some other goals that are attributed to clustering include bandwidth reuse in the network, efficient data gathering and aggregation, target tracking, and supporting hierarchical routing techniques. Moreover, in some middleware approaches like [1,20] clustering not only helps in solving the scalability issue but it also helps in increasing the event reporting reliability. Additionally, clustering has also been proposed for solving security issues in mobile adhoc networks as suggested in [21].…”