A bio-inspired architecture for division of labour in SANETs

Authors:
Thomas Halva Labella;Falko Dressler
Affiliations:
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany;University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Bio inspired models of network, information and computing systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Division of labour is one of the possible strategies to efficiently exploit the resources of autonomous systems. It is also a phenomenon often observed in animal systems. We show an architecture that implements division of labour in Sensor/Actuator Networks. The way the nodes take their decisions is inspired by ants' foraging behaviour. The preliminary results show that the architecture and the bio-inspired mechanism successfully induce self-organised division of labour in the network. The experiments were run in simulation. We developed a new type of simulator for this purpose. Key features of our work are cross-layer design and exploitation if inter-node interactions. No explicit negotiation between the agents takes place.