Mobile Line Based Data Dissemination Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Depending on how to collect data and process them, we can distinguish the traditional Client/Server based data dissemination protocols, and the Mobile Agents protocols. In the traditional Client/Server architectures, data sources are transferred to a destination to be processed there, while in Mobile Agents architectures, a specific executable code passes through relevant sources to collect and process 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.