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

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1315843.1315878,
        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},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1145/1315843.1315878}
    }
    
  • 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.