TY - GEN
T1 - Middleware mechanisms for agent mobility in wireless sensor and actuator networks
AU - Tziritas, Nikos
AU - Georgakoudis, Giorgis
AU - Lalis, Spyros
AU - Paczesny, Tomasz
AU - Domaszewicz, Jarosław
AU - Lampsas, Petros
AU - Loukopoulos, Thanasis
PY - 2012/9/10
Y1 - 2012/9/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - embedded systems
KW - Imote2
KW - middleware
KW - mobile agents
KW - performance evaluation
KW - wireless sensor networks
KW - ZigBee
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869598114&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-32778-0_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-32778-0_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869598114
SN - 9783642327773
VL - 102 LNICST
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
SP - 30
EP - 44
BT - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
T2 - 3rd International ICST Conference on Sensor Systems and Software, S-Cube 2012
Y2 - 4 June 2012 through 5 June 2012
ER -