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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2016.03.021

Multi-Agent System for Fault Tolerance in Wireless Sensor Networks  

Lee, HwaMin (Department of Computer Software Engineering, Soonchunhyang University)
Min, Se Dong (Department of Medical IT Engineering, Soonchunhyang University)
Choi, Min-Hyung (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Denver)
Lee, DaeWon (Division of General Education, SeoKyeong University)
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KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.10, no.3, 2016 , pp. 1321-1332 More about this Journal
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are self-organized networks that typically consist of thousands of low-cost, low-powered sensor nodes. The reliability and availability of WSNs can be affected by faults, including those from radio interference, battery exhaustion, hardware and software failures, communication link errors, malicious attacks, and so on. Thus, we propose a novel multi-agent fault tolerant system for wireless sensor networks. Since a major requirement of WSNs is to reduce energy consumption, we use multi-agent and mobile agent configurations to manage WSNs that provide energy-efficient services. Mobile agent architecture have inherent advantages in that they provide energy awareness, scalability, reliability, and extensibility. Our multi-agent system consists of a resource manager, a fault tolerance manager and a load balancing manager, and we also propose fault-tolerant protocols that use multi-agent and mobile agent setups.
Keywords
fault tolerance; wireless sensor networks; multi-agent; mobile agent;
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