Agilla: A mobile agent middleware for self-adaptive wireless sensor networks

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Fok, Chien Liang ^a   Roman, Gruia Catalin ^a   Lu, Chenyang ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent; Middleware; Mobile agent; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

CARGO CONTAINERS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FIRE DETECTION; MOBILE AGENT SYSTEM; PHYSICAL RESOURCES; PHYSICAL TESTBEDS; PROGRAMMING MODELS; RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED; ROBOT NAVIGATION; SELF-ADAPTIVE; TUPLE SPACE; WIRELESS SENSOR;

CLONING; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE AGENTS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70349914831     PISSN: 15564665     EISSN: 15564703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1552297.1552299     Document Type: Article

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