Mobile agent middleware for sensor networks: an application case study Export

@inproceedings{Fok05MobileAgent , abstract = {Agilla is a mobile agent middleware that facilitates the rapid deployment of adaptive applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Agilla allows users to create and inject special programs called mobile agents that coordinate through local tuple spaces, and migrate across the WSN performing application-specific tasks. This fluidity of code and state has the potential to transform a WSN into a shared, general-purpose computing platform capable of running several autonomous applications at a time, allowing us to harness its full potential. We have implemented and evaluated a fire tracking application to determine how well Agilla achieves its goals. Fire is modeled by agents that gradually spread throughout the network, engulfing nodes by inserting fire tuples into their local tuple spaces. Fire tracker agents are then used to form a perimeter around the fire. Using Agilla, we were able to rapidly create and deploy 47 byte fire agents, and 100 byte tracker agents on a WSN consisting of 26 MICA2 motes. Our experiments show that the tracker agents can form an 8-node perimeter around a burning node within 6.5 seconds and that it can adapt to a fire spreading at a rate of 7 seconds per hop. We also present the lessons learned about the adequacy of Agilla's primitives, and regarding the efficiency, reliability, and adaptivity of mobile agents in a WSN.}, author = {Fok, C. L. and Roman, G. C. and Lu, C.}, booktitle = {Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2005. IPSN 2005. Fourth International Symposium on}, citeulike-article-id = {4712859}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPSN.2005.1440953}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1440953}, doi = {10.1109/IPSN.2005.1440953}, journal = {Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2005. IPSN 2005. Fourth International Symposium on}, keywords = {middleware, wsn}, pages = {382--387}, posted-at = {2009-06-02 01:18:56}, priority = {2}, title = {Mobile agent middleware for sensor networks: an application case study}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPSN.2005.1440953}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - Fok05MobileAgent L3 - citeulike-article-id:4712859 N2 - Agilla is a mobile agent middleware that facilitates the rapid deployment of adaptive applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Agilla allows users to create and inject special programs called mobile agents that coordinate through local tuple spaces, and migrate across the WSN performing application-specific tasks. This fluidity of code and state has the potential to transform a WSN into a shared, general-purpose computing platform capable of running several autonomous applications at a time, allowing us to harness its full potential. We have implemented and evaluated a fire tracking application to determine how well Agilla achieves its goals. Fire is modeled by agents that gradually spread throughout the network, engulfing nodes by inserting fire tuples into their local tuple spaces. Fire tracker agents are then used to form a perimeter around the fire. Using Agilla, we were able to rapidly create and deploy 47 byte fire agents, and 100 byte tracker agents on a WSN consisting of 26 MICA2 motes. Our experiments show that the tracker agents can form an 8-node perimeter around a burning node within 6.5 seconds and that it can adapt to a fire spreading at a rate of 7 seconds per hop. We also present the lessons learned about the adequacy of Agilla's primitives, and regarding the efficiency, reliability, and adaptivity of mobile agents in a WSN. JF - Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2005. IPSN 2005. Fourth International Symposium on EP - 387 TI - Mobile agent middleware for sensor networks: an application case study T2 - Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2005. IPSN 2005. Fourth International Symposium on SP - 382 KW - middleware KW - wsn AU - Fok, CL AU - Roman, GC AU - Lu, C PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPSN.2005.1440953 ER -