Data dissemination based on mobile agent in wireless sensor networks

Recently, mobile agents have been proposed for efficient data dissemination in sensor networks. In the traditional client/server-based computing architecture, data at multiple sources is transferred to a destination; whereas, a task-specific executable code traverses the relevant sources to gather data in the mobile-agent based computing paradigm. As described in Hairong Qi, et al. (2003), many inherent advantages (e.g. scalability, extensibility, energy awareness, reliability) of the mobile agent architecture make it more suitable for sensor networks than the client/server architecture. In this paper, a mobile agent is exploited in three levels (e.g. node level, task level, and combined task level) to reduce the information redundancy and communication overhead