Agilla is a mobile agent middleware for sensor networks. Mobile agents are special processes that can migrate across sensors. They increase network flexibility by enabling active in-network reprogramming. Neighbor lists and tuple spaces are used for agent coordination. Agilla was originally implemented on Mica2 motes, but has been ported to other platforms. Its Mica2 implementation consumes 41....

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are nowadays applied to a wide set of domains (e.g., security, health). WSN are networks of spatially distributed, radio-communicating, battery-powered, autonomous sensor nodes. WSN are characterized by scarcity of resources, hence an application running on them should carefully manage its resources. The most critical resource in WSN is the nodes’ battery. In this...

Wireless sensor networks are turning out to be progressively attractive to researchers and industries, due to extensive variety of applications. Middleware serves to overcome the gap between the high-level requirements of the application programs and underlying operations of WSN. Agilla is a portable agent middleware that encourages the rapid deployment of adaptive applications in wireless sens...

This paper introduces a double multiagent architecture allowing the triage of victims in emergency scenarios and the automatic update of their medical condition. Gathering updated information about the medical condition of victims is critical for designing an optimal evacuation strategy that minimizes the number of casualties in the aftermath of an emergency. The proposed scheme, currently unde...

This paper introduces the deployment of a new type of mobile agent application in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that implements the construct of separate itinerary, a classic concept from Concordia, a mobile agent system in conventional distributed environments. A separate itinerary is a completely separate data structure from the agent itself, providing a simple mechanism to flexibly define ...

IV. Network Management Systems 5 A. Sensor Network Management Framework 5 1. BOSS 5 2. MANNA 6 B. Sensor Network Management Protocols 8 1. RRP 8 2. SNMS 9 3. sNMP 10 4. WinMS 11 C. Management By Delegation 12 1. Agilla 12 2. Mobile Agent-Based Policy Management 12 3. Sectoral Sweeper 12 4. Intelligent Agent-Based Power Management 13 D. Debugging Tools 13 1. Sympathy 13 2. Two-Phase Self-Monitor...

Regions. Welsh et al. [23] propose a set of general-purpose communication primitives providing addressing, data sharing, and aggregation among a given subset of nodes. A region defines a neighborhood relationship between a specific node and other nodes in the system. For instance, a region can be defined to include all nodes within a given number of hops or within physical distance d. Data shar...

Wireless sensor networks are evolving from dedicated application-specific platforms to integrated infrastructure shared by multiple applications. Shared sensor networks offer inherent advantages in terms of flexibility and cost since they allow dynamic resource sharing and allocation among multiple applications. Such shared systems face the critical need for allocation of nodes to contending ap...

This particular paper describes our most recent work on our system called JAWS. This system is intended to control and monitor Wireless Sensor Network. In principle, JAWS is group of agents implemented on JADE platform. It consists of several agents that are able to communicate with Wireless Sensor Nodes and obtain values from particular sensor nodes called motes. We are also able to inject mob...