Name-based Location Service for Mobile Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks

Shunichiro Suenaga; Shinichi Honiden

1st International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems and Applications

Research Article

Name-based Location Service for Mobile Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.MOBILWARE2008.2802,
    author={Shunichiro Suenaga and Shinichi Honiden},
    title={Name-based Location Service for Mobile Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems and Applications},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={MOBILWARE},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={sensor networks mobile agent location service middleware},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBILWARE2008.2802}
}

Shunichiro Suenaga
Shinichi Honiden
Year: 2010
Name-based Location Service for Mobile Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks
MOBILWARE
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBILWARE2008.2802

Shunichiro Suenaga¹^,*, Shinichi Honiden²^,*

1: The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Nihon Unisys Ltd.
2: National Institute of Informatics, The University of Tokyo

*Contact email: suenaga@nii.ac.jp, honiden@nii.ac.jp

Abstract

Mobile agent technologies are effective ways of deploying applications in wireless sensor networks (WSN). There are currently several different approaches for enabling communication between agents operating on a WSN, but none of them allows for dynamic agent location determination. This introduces some restrictions which severely limit the usefulness of mobile agents on WSNs. In this paper, we propose a name-based location service for mobile agents in a WSN. The approach is largely implemented through the regular placement of landmark nodes across the WSN. We show that our approach can enable communication with the nearest target agent and maintains a constant level of communication among mobile agents over the whole WSN.

Keywords: sensor networks mobile agent location service middleware

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ICST
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBILWARE2008.2802