An Energy Saving Data Dissemination Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Recently, Mobile Agents have been used for efficient data dissemination in wireless sensor networks. In the traditional Client/Server architectures, data sources are transferred to a destination while in Mobile Agents architectures, a specific executable code passes through relevant sources to collect data. Mobile Agents can be used to significantly reduce the cost of communication, especially through low bandwidth, by moving the processing function to the data, rather that bringing the data to a central processor. This work proposes to use a Client/Server approach using Mobile Agents to aggregate data in a planar architecture of wireless sensor network. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012.