A survey of agent technologies for wireless sensor networks

IETE Technical Review (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India)

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 168-184

  Dagdeviren, Orhan ^a   Korkmaz, Ilker ^b   Tekbacak, Fatih ^a   Erciyes, Kayhan ^c  

^a IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Turkey)

^c IZMIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Agent middlewares; Communication protocols; Data sampling algorithms; Energy harvesting algorithms; Localization algorithms; Mobile hardware agents; Mobile software agents; Multi agent systems; Task assignment algorithms; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; DATA SAMPLING; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHMS; MOBILE HARDWARE AGENTS; MOBILE SOFTWARE AGENTS; TASK ASSIGNMENT ALGORITHMS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMUNICATION; ENERGY HARVESTING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MOBILE AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SURVEYS; TARGET TRACKING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79953785582     PISSN: 02564602     EISSN: 09745971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4602.72509     Document Type: Article

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