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JAFSPOT: Java Agent-Based Framework for Sun SPOT Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors:
Hakan Cam
Ozgur Koray Sahingoz
Ahmet Coskun Sonmez

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks; Mobile Agent Systems

Abstract:
Due to increasing capabilities of micro-sensors, wireless sensor networks have emerged as one of the key growth areas in recent years. They are a collection of sensor nodes deployed over a target region for observing physical phenomena, such as temperature, light, accelerometer, etc. Mobile agent model is a distributed computing paradigm, which is capable of solving problems effectively in dynamic and open environments like wireless sensor networks. Few mobile agent systems have been developed for wireless sensor networks so far. In this paper, we describe JAFSPOT, a Java Agent-based Framework for Sun SPOT. It uses event-based programming in which the core components communicate through events. To the best of our knowledge, JAFSPOT is one of the very few mobile agent-based frameworks for wireless sensor networks that support migration of isolates. First, we describe the core components of the proposed system, then present a sample application about monitoring Sun SPOT sensor node with mobile agents and finally, give the results of an experiment to evaluate the performance of this system in terms of time and energy consumption.

Pages: 47 to 52

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2163-9027

ISBN: 978-1-61208-231-8

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012