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ICDCSW '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Sentire: A Framework for Building Middleware for Sensor and Actuator Networks
PERCOMW '05 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
A distributed coordination framework for wireless sensor and actor networks
Proceedings of the 6th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
A Novel Auction Mechanism for Selling Time-Sensitive E-Services
CEC '05 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology
Kairos: a macro-programming system for wireless sensor networks
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Priority based adaptive coordination of wireless sensors and actors
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TeenyLIME: transiently shared tuple space middleware for wireless sensor networks
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The design and evaluation of a mobile sensor/actuator network for autonomous animal control
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Managing heterogeneous sensors and actuators in ubiquitous computing environments
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Market-Based Task Allocation Mechanisms for Limited-Capacity Suppliers
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
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Sensor and actuator networks (SANETs) are a growing class of distributed systems combining sensors for environmental monitoring with actuators for reacting to environmental changes and controlling its dynamic processes. As SANETs evolve to accommodate complex large-scale deployments, there is an increasing probability that sensors' and actuators' attempted tasks may impact those of other sensors and actuators; for example by collectively exceeding the amount of available resources. Hence, there is a need for new tools that can autonomously coordinate the execution of SANETs for the benefit of the entire system. This need is especially important in case of actuators since they actually affect the environment. This paper advocates the use of market-based methods as the basis for distributed actuator coordination within the Sentire SANET framework. We demonstrate that auction-based distributed actuator coordination in an HVAC system leads to efficient, temporal and fair allocation of energy even when the desired temperature cannot be sustained in all locations simultaneously. We also discuss how this approach can be generalized to similar SANET resource allocation problems and what other challenges auction mechanism design faces when applied to SANETs.