IPSA: a novel architecture design for integrating IP and sensor networks
International Journal of Sensor Networks
Localization research based on improved simulated annealing algorithm in WSN
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Energy-efficient itinerary planning for mobile agents in wireless sensor networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
A 2G-RFID-based e-healthcare system
IEEE Wireless Communications
Programmable Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks Applications Using Mobile Agents
Mobile Networks and Applications
Energy Savings Modeling and Performance Analysis in Multi-Power-State Base Station Systems
GREENCOM-CPSCOM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Green Computing and Communications & Int'l Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing
A Group-Based Mobile Agent Routing Protocol for Multitype Wireless Sensor Networks
GREENCOM-CPSCOM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Green Computing and Communications & Int'l Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Energy Efficiency Routing with Node Compromised Resistance in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Mobile Networks and Applications
An energy balanced mobile agents based data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief
A genetic algorithm approach to multi-agent itinerary planning in wireless sensor networks
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on Wireless and Personal Communications
Efficient dynamic itinerary and memory allocation for mobile agents
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics
Research on secure data collection in wireless multimedia sensor networks
Computer Communications
International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence
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Recently, research interest has increased in the design, development, and deployment of mobile agent systems for high-level inference and surveillance in a wireless sensor network (WSN). Mobile agent systems employ migrating codes to facilitate flexible application re-tasking, local processing, and collaborative signal and information processing. This provides extra flexibility, as well as new capabilities to WSNs in contrast to the conventional WSN operations based on the client-server computing model. In this article we survey the potential applications of mobile agents in WSNs and discuss the key design issues for such applications. We decompose the agent design functionality into four components, that is, architecture, itinerary planning, middleware system design, and agent cooperation. This taxonomy covers low-level to high-level design issues and facilitates the creation of a component-based and efficient mobile agent system for a wide range of applications. With a different realization for each design component, it is expected that flexible trade-offs (e.g., between energy and delay) can be achieved according to specific application requirements.