A bio-inspired architecture for division of labour in SANETs

Thomas  Halva Labella; Falko  Dressler

1st International ICST Conference on Bio Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems

Research Article

A bio-inspired architecture for division of labour in SANETs

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    author={Thomas  Halva Labella and Falko  Dressler},
    title={A bio-inspired architecture for division of labour in SANETs},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Bio Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={BIONETICS},
    year={2006},
    month={9},
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    doi={10.1145/1315843.1315878}
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Thomas Halva Labella
Falko Dressler
Year: 2006
A bio-inspired architecture for division of labour in SANETs
BIONETICS
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1315843.1315878

Thomas Halva Labella¹^,*, Falko Dressler¹^,*

1: Autonomic Networking Group, Dept. of Computer Science 7, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Martensstr. 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

*Contact email: hlabella@ulb.ac.be, dressler@informatik.uni-erlangen.de

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.

Published: 2006-09-13
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1315843.1315878