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Mobile Agent Middleware for Sensor Networks: An Application Case Study Chien-Liang Fok, Gruia-Catalin Roman, and Chenyang Lu Washington University in Saint Louis Saint Louis, Missouri 63130 E-mail: liang, roman, lu@ Abstract— Agilla is a mobile agent middleware that facilitates the rapid ?ashing the mote’s instruction memory. Deluge improves upon XNP deployment of adaptive applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). by enabling multi-hop support. Both XNP and Deluge take a long Agilla allows users to create and inject special programs called mobile time and consume a lot of energy transferring an entire image over the agents that coordinate through local tuple spaces, and migrate across the WSN performing application-speci?c tasks. This ?uidity of code and lossy wireless network and ?ashing the instruction memory. Mate′ and state has the potential to transform a WSN into a shared, general-purpose Impala both divide an event-based application into modules that are computing platform capable of running several autonomous applications ?ooded across the network. Mate′ is a virtual machine, Impala uses at a time, allowing us to harness its full potential. We have implemented native code. More fundamentally, XNP, Deluge, Mate,′ and Impala and evaluated a ?re tracking application to determine how well Agilla achieves its goals. Fire is modeled by agents that gradually spread do not allow a programmer to control where a program is installed throughout the network, engul?ng nodes by inserting ?re tuples into their (it is installed on every node) preventing multiple applications from local tuple spaces. Fire tracker agents are then used to form a perimeter running on a network simultaneously. SensorWare allows users to around the ?re. Using Agilla,