The ATL Postmaster: a system for agent collaboration and information dissemination
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Seven good reasons for mobile agents
Communications of the ACM
Adaptive protocols for information dissemination in wireless sensor networks
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Intelligent mobile agents in large distributed autonomous cooperative systems
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on invited articles on top systems and software engineering scholars
Agent-based drivers' information assistance system
New Generation Computing
Directed diffusion: a scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A DoD perspective on mobile Ad hoc networks
Ad hoc networking
A two-tier data dissemination model for large-scale wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Data Dissemination based on Mobile Agent in Wireless Sensor Networks
LCN '05 Proceedings of the The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary
Mobile agent-based directed diffusion in wireless sensor networks
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Mobile agent location management in global networks
ICCOMP'05 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Computers
On Computing Mobile Agent Routes for Data Fusion in Distributed Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
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The wireless sensor network is an emerging technology that may greatly facilitate human life by providing ubiquitous sensing, computing, and communication capability, through which people can more closely interact with the environment whenever required. One of the most important problems studied in any sensor network is data fusion. Client/server paradigm has been a commonly used computing model in traditional distributed wireless sensor networks (DWSNs). However, the deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and its ad hoc nature have brought new challenges to the fusion task. For example, the advances in sensor technology allow better, cheaper, and smaller sensors to be used, which results in a much larger number of sensors deployed. On the other hand, sensors communicate through wireless networks where the network bandwidth is much lower than for wired communication. In this article, we have presented mobile agent (MA) assisted data fusion in WSNs (MADFWs). In MADFWs, data stay at the local site, while the fusion process (code) is moved to the data sites. By transmitting the computing process instead of data, network bandwidth requirement is largely reduced and the performance of the fusion process is more stable. One of the key issue which is implemented in this model is how to plan the itinerary for a MA in order to achieve progressive fusion accuracy. We have presented a method to develop an optimal itinerary for MA to fulfill the integration task while consuming minimum amount of resources, including time and power. In MADFWs agent has freedom to invite some nearby slave sensors to cooperatively position the object and inhibit other irrelevant (i.e., farther) sensors from tracking the object. As a result, the communication and sensing overheads are greatly reduced.