Middleware mechanisms for agent mobility in wireless sensor and actuator networks


Autoria(s): Tziritas, Nikos; Georgakoudis, Giorgis; Lalis, Spyros; Paczesny, Tomasz; Domaszewicz, Jarosław; Lampsas, Petros; Loukopoulos, Thanasis
Data(s)

10/09/2012

Resumo

<p>This paper describes middleware-level support for agent mobility, targeted at hierarchically structured wireless sensor and actuator network applications. Agent mobility enables a dynamic deployment and adaptation of the application on top of the wireless network at runtime, while allowing the middleware to optimize the placement of agents, e.g., to reduce wireless network traffic, transparently to the application programmer. The paper presents the design of the mechanisms and protocols employed to instantiate agents on nodes and to move agents between nodes. It also gives an evaluation of a middleware prototype running on Imote2 nodes that communicate over ZigBee. The results show that our implementation is reasonably efficient and fast enough to support the envisioned functionality on top of a commodity multi-hop wireless technology. Our work is to a large extent platform-neutral, thus it can inform the design of other systems that adopt a hierarchical structuring of mobile components. © 2012 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.</p>

Identificador

http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/middleware-mechanisms-for-agent-mobility-in-wireless-sensor-and-actuator-networks(f426f435-5a24-4b7a-8923-54a3c6176420).html

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32778-0_3

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Idioma(s)

eng

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

Fonte

Tziritas , N , Georgakoudis , G , Lalis , S , Paczesny , T , Domaszewicz , J , Lampsas , P & Loukopoulos , T 2012 , Middleware mechanisms for agent mobility in wireless sensor and actuator networks . in Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering . vol. 102 LNICST , Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering , vol. 102 LNICST , pp. 30-44 , 3rd International ICST Conference on Sensor Systems and Software, S-Cube 2012 , Lisbon , Portugal , 4-5 June . DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32778-0_3

Palavras-Chave #embedded systems #Imote2 #middleware #mobile agents #performance evaluation #wireless sensor networks #ZigBee #/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1705 #Computer Networks and Communications
Tipo

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