Agent migration and communication in WSNs

Intelligent agents offer a viable paradigm for enabling
AmI applications and services. As WSN technologies
are anticipated to provide an indispensable component in
many application domains, the need for enabling the agent
paradigm to encompass such technologies becomes more
urgent. The resource-constrained ad-hoc nature of WSNs
poses significant challenges to conventional agent frameworks.
In particular, the implications for agent functionality
and behaviour in a WSN context demand that issues
such as unreliable message delivery and limited power resources,
amongst others, be considered. In this paper, the
practical issues of agent migration and communication are
considered in light of WSN constraints. The discussion is
illustrated through a description of approaches adopted by
Agent Factory Micro Edition (AFME).