Rapid Development and Flexible Deployment of Adaptive Wireless Sensor Network Applications

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are difficult to program and usually run statically-installed software limiting its flexibility. To address this, we developed Agilla, a new middleware that increases network flexibility while simplifying application development. An Agilla network is deployed with no pre-installed application. Instead, users inject mobile agents that spread across nodes performing application-specific tasks. Each agent is autonomous, allowing multiple applications to share a network. Programming is simplified by allowing programmers to create agents using a high-level language. Linda-like tuple spaces are used for inter-agent communication and context discovery. This preserves each agent’s autonomy while providing a rich infrastructure for building complex applications, and marks the first time mobile agents and tuple spaces are used in a unified framework for WSNs. Our efforts resulted in an implementation for MICA2 motes and the development of several applica...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICDCS
• Authors: Chien-Liang Fok, Gruia-Catalin Roman, Chenyang Lu
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICDCS 2005, Mobile Agents, Tuple Spaces, Wireless Sensor Networks