Geo-aware handover of mission agents using opportunistic communication in VANET

Authors:
Edison Pignaton De Freitas;Tales Heimfarth;Flávio Rech Wagner;Armando Morado Ferreira;Carlos Eduardo Pereira;Tony Larsson
Affiliations:
School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden and Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil;Computer Science Department, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil;Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil;Defense Engineering Graduate Program, Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil;Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil;School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden
Venue:
ruSMART/NEW2AN'10 Proceedings of the Third conference on Smart Spaces and next generation wired, and 10th international conference on Wireless networking
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper explores geographical location awareness to support software agent mobility in ad hoc networks. The idea is to evaluate the concept of opportunistic communication to perform agent migration and mobility among nodes (handover), in an infrastructureless vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET). The application of this idea can support a number of applications, and one of particular interest is a "virtual sensor network" composed of software agents that implement missions in the form of sensing services, which use the available resources provided by the physical nodes, i.e. physical sensor devices, computing platforms and communication devices. A case study is presented together with simulations results to assess the efficiency of the proposed approach.