P2P Multi-agent Data Transfer and Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Elhadi Shakshuki, Sajid Hussain, Abdur Matin, Abdul Matin
2006 2006 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Sysetems  
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) enable pervasive, ubiquitous, and seamless communication with the physical world. This paper presents P2P multi-agent data transfer and aggregation system architecture in WSNs. The architecture includes four types of agents: interface, query, routing, and data acquisition agents. The interface agent interacts with the users to fulfill their interests. The routing agent is responsible for energy efficient data transfer. The query agent facilitates the
more » ... between the interface and routing agents, and is responsible for creating optimized plans to achieve their desired goals. Both interface and query agents are placed at the resourceenriched base station because they require computation intensive operations. The data acquisition agent is responsible to acquire, filter, and format the sensor data. Sensor nodes have limited energy and computing resources. Thus, we create proxy agents for query and routing agents to act as peer agents with similar capabilities. The proxy query agents receive query execution plans from query agent, and proxy routing agents receive routing plans from routing agent. This paper provides the agents' architecture and design that enable them to coordinate and communicate with each other to transfer and aggregate data in WSNs.
doi:10.1109/mobhoc.2006.278627 dblp:conf/mass/ShakshukiHMM06 fatcat:om52t6wqp5axbjcqfrvlq5xqhq