A review on the applications of multiagent systems in wireless sensor networks

Farnaz Derakhshan,Shamim Yousefi

doi:10.1177/1550147719850767

Abstract

Nowadays, the efficiency of multiagent systems in wireless sensor networks prompts the researchers to use these emerging mobile software packets in different simulated approaches or real-world applications. Heterogeneous and distributed wireless sensor networks could be integrated with the multiagent systems to map the real-world challenges into the artificial intelligence world. The multiagent systems have been applied from simulated approaches like object detection/tracking, healthcare, control/assistant, and security systems to real-world applications, including medical/human-care systems and unmanned aerial vehicles. Furthermore, the integration of wireless sensor networks with multiagent systems have emerged novel application, which is known as mobile robots. However, the extensive use of mobile agents in wireless sensor networks has posed different challenges for researchers, including security, resource, and timing limitation. In this work, we review recent simulated approaches and real-world applications of multiagent systems in wireless sensor networks, in which a set of common factors about the things that have been studied are extracted and compared to analyze the performance of mobile agent–based systems in the wireless sensor networks, as well. This analysis provides new research directions about multiagent systems in wireless sensor networks for interested researchers. Finally, a novel framework for dealing with the challenges of multiagent-based applications in the wireless sensor networks which have been mentioned is suggested.

Highlights

The term wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is defined as multi-hop network systems
We present some recommendations for enhancing the performance of multiagent system (MAS) in the WSNs: 3. The multiagent-based approaches in the WSNs do not consider some mechanisms to satisfy the requirements of the delay-sensitive applications
The applications/literatures of MASs in the WSNs were classified into two categories: the simulated approaches and the real-world applications

Summary

Introduction

The term wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is defined as multi-hop network systems. They are formed through distributed, self-organized, and energy-constrained wireless sensor nodes and actuators, which collect data needed for a certain application from the monitoring area automatically in order to improve the performance of the monitoring systems and decrease the total costs.[1,2,3] The main operation of such WSNs is to collect required data from their Field-of-View (FoV). To meet the requirements of the applications of WSNs, each wireless sensor node collects the data from its FoV in the monitoring area and transmits the processed information or the raw data to the sink periodically or based on sink demand.

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