Rapid development and flexible deployment of adaptive wireless sensor network applications：（快速发展和灵活的自适应无线传感器网络应用程序的部署）.pdfVIP

Rapid Development and Flexible Deployment of Adaptive Wireless Sensor Network Applications Chien-Liang Fok, Gruia-Catalin Roman, and Chenyang Lu Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis, Missouri 63130 {liang, roman, lu}@ Abstract less ad hoc network. The miniature size and number of these sensors enable micro-sensing at unprecedented reso- Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are difficult to pro- lutions and scales. Several examples of WSN deployments gram and usually run statically-installed software limiting include habitat monitoring, microclimate research, surveil- its flexibility. To address this, we developed Agilla, a new lance, medical care, and structural monitoring [11]. How- middleware that increases network flexibility while simpli- ever in order for WSNs to go mainstream, they must be fying application development. An Agilla network is de- cheaper, easier to use, and more flexible. ployed with no pre-installed application. Instead, users The existing software for WSNs is not flexible enough inject mobile agents that spread across nodes performing to meet the demands of many applications. Most WSNs application-specific tasks. Each agent is autonomous, al- are limited in that the application must be installed prior lowing multiple applications to share a network. Pro- to deployment, and, once deployed, they can only be mar- gramming is simplified by al