Evaluating Activator-Inhibitor Mechanisms for Sensors Coordination

Giovanni Neglia; Giuseppe Reina

2nd International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems

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Evaluating Activator-Inhibitor Mechanisms for Sensors Coordination

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2007.2460,
    author={Giovanni Neglia and Giuseppe Reina},
    title={Evaluating Activator-Inhibitor Mechanisms for Sensors Coordination},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems},
    proceedings_a={BIONETICS},
    year={2008},
    month={8},
    keywords={Sensor networks  activator-inhibitor models  bio-inspired mechanisms  reaction-diffusion models  sensor coordination},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2007.2460}
}

Giovanni Neglia
Giuseppe Reina
Year: 2008
Evaluating Activator-Inhibitor Mechanisms for Sensors Coordination
BIONETICS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2007.2460

Giovanni Neglia¹^,*, Giuseppe Reina²^,*

1: INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italia
2: Università degli Studi di Catania, Italia

*Contact email: giovanni.neglia@ieee.org, g.reina@gmail.com

Abstract

The possibility to employ reaction-di®usion models to build spatial patterns in sensor networks has been advocated in other works. Nevertheless it has not been investigated how the biologically-inspired solutions perform in comparison to more traditional ones taking into account speci¯cities of sen- sor networks like severe energy constraints. In this paper we present some preliminary results on the comparison be- tween a biologically inspired coordination mechanism based on activator-inhibitor interaction and a simple mechanism, where nodes do not communicate but activate their sensing circuitry according to some probability.

Keywords: Sensor networks activator-inhibitor models bio-inspired mechanisms reaction-diffusion models sensor coordination

Published: 2008-08-29
Modified: 2011-07-10

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2007.2460