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
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.
