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Agent Migration and Communication in WSNs Conor Muldoon, Gregory M.P. O’Hare, Michael J. O’Grady, Richard Tynan CLARITY: The Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin UCD , Bel?eld, Dublin, Ireland. conor.muldoon, gregory.ohare, michael.j.ogrady,richard.tynan@ucd.ie Abstract eas of research for agent technologies [1] [2]. The abil- ity to migrate enhances an agent’s capabilities to adapt and Intelligent agents offer a viable paradigm for enabling respond to unexpected events. This ?exibility makes mo- AmI applications and services. As WSN technologies bile agents adept at managing the complexity of emergent are anticipated to provide an indispensable component in behaviour synonymous with ambient systems. Traditional many application domains, the need for enabling the agent agent frameworks have implicitly assumed the availability paradigm to encompass such technologies becomes more of ?xed network communications and signi?cant computa- urgent. The resource-constrained ad-hoc nature of WSNs tional resources. Ubiquitous computing and its constituent poses signi?cant challenges to conventional agent frame- technologies of mobile devices and Wireless Sensor Net- works. In particular, the implications for agent function- works WSNs challenge this assumption. One framework ality and behaviour in a WSN context demand that issues that seeks to address the constraints and heterogeneity of such as unreliable message delivery and limited power re- AmI environments is Agent Factory Micro Edition AFME sources, amongst others, be considered. In this paper, the [3] [4]. practical issues of agent migration and communication are AFME is a minimised footprint intelligent agent plat- considered in light of WSN constraints. The discussion is form that was originally developed for use with 3G mobile illustrated through a description of approaches adopted