On Wireless Sensor Networks Formal Modeling Based on Petri Nets

Author

Fu, Xiao ; Ma, Zhiqiang ; Yu, Zhenhua ; Fu, Gang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Telecommun. Eng., Air Force Eng. Univ., Xi´´an, China

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A kind of intelligent wireless sensor networks (IWSN) is set up from the point of view of multi-agent systems. IWSN is composed of some sensor node agents, some cluster head agents, a base agent and a command agent. According to the characteristics of these agents, intelligent wireless sensor networks model (IWSNM) based on Petri nets is proposed, which can accurately and unambiguously model the overall and individual characteristics of the networks. Moreover, IWSNM can be analyzed, verified and validated by the supporting tools of Petri nets. Consequently, the defects in early design stage can be detected, and the security and reliability can be improved. Finally, IWSNM are employed to develop the target tracking systems.

Keywords

Petri nets; intelligent sensors; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; IWSNM; Petri nets; intelligent wireless sensor networks formal modeling; multi-agent systems; reliability; security; target tracking systems; Acoustics; Base stations; Computational modeling; Image sensors; Petri nets; Target tracking; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040356

Filename

6040356