Abstract
This paper presents a free market economy model that can be used to facilitate fully distributed autonomous control of resources in massive heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In the future, it is expected that WSNs will exist as part of the global Internet of Things (IoT), and different WSNs can work together in a massive network of heterogeneous WSNs in order to solve common problems. Control of valuable processing, sensing and communication resources, determining which nodes will remain awake during specific time periods in order to provide sensing services, and determining which nodes will forward other nodes’ packets are difficult problems that must be dealt with. It is proposed that just as the free market economy model enables the global human society to function reasonably well when individuals simply attempt to trade money and services in order to maximize their individual profits, and a similar model and mechanism should enable a massive network of heterogeneous WSNs to function well in a fully distributed autonomous manner. The main contributions of this paper are the introduction of the free market economy model for use with WSNs, the formal definition of a maximum profit price problem for multihop packet relaying, and the proposal of a distributed genetic algorithm for the solution of the maximum profit price problem. Simulation results show that the proposed distributed solution produces results that are 70% - 80% similar to a pareto optimal solution for this problem.
Highlights
IntroductionWith the widespread use of mobile devices supporting communication, many modern day living areas are sur-
With the widespread use of mobile devices supporting communication, many modern day living areas are sur-How to cite this paper: Bae, B., Park, J.Y. and Lee, S. (2015) A Free Market Economy Model for Resource Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
One wireless sensor networks (WSNs) application that can benefit from the proposed free market economy model is the problem of multihop packet relaying
Summary
With the widespread use of mobile devices supporting communication, many modern day living areas are sur-. Just as the Internet has spread across the globe and has become ubiquitous, the IoT is expected to grow in size to span the globe and become ubiquitous This future IoT is expected to include many different wireless sensor networks (WSNs), composed of various different types of sensor nodes with widely varying sizes and capabilities. If all nodes behaved in such a selfish manner, the WSN would become useless as no sensing or multihop packet deliveries would occur For these types of distributed resource control problems, it is proposed that a free market economy model be used to provide fair distribution and use of resources and services in a fully distributed autonomous manner
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