Mobile agent itinerary planning for WSN data fusion: considering multiple sinks and heterogeneous networks

International Journal of Communication Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Gavalas, Damianos ^a   Venetis, Ioannis E ^b   Konstantopoulos, Charalampos ^c   Pantziou, Grammati ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Castalia; data fusion; heterogeneous networks; iterated local search; itinerary; mobile agents; multiple sinks; network lifetime; simulation; WSN

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; LOCAL SEARCH (OPTIMIZATION); MIDDLEWARE; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CASTALIA; ITERATED LOCAL SEARCH; ITINERARY; MULTIPLE SINKS; NETWORK LIFETIME; SIMULATION;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 84984696241     PISSN: 10745351     EISSN: 10991131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dac.3184     Document Type: Article

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