Title :
A multi-agent simulator for resource management in smart spaces
Author :
Moussa, Sherin ; Agha, Gul
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
The existence of advanced smart devices and related technologies such as pervasive computing, mobile wireless communications, sensor networks and agent technologies have supported the proliferation of smart spaces. In this paper, we present the design of ¿Bosthan¿, a multi-agent-based simulation tool that manages resources consumption in multi-inhabitants smart spaces. Bosthan is built on the top of ActorNet mobile agent platform to simulate different smart space topologies with varying numbers of residents. It allows strategies for resolution of conflicts between mobile agents, and for preserving inhabitants´ anonymity and untraceability inside the smart spaces, to be studied. Bosthan will help us compare the efficiency of using mobile agents to allow smart spaces to act pro-actively and maintain anonymity and data privacy in multi-inhabitants environments.
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; ubiquitous computing; wireless sensor networks; ActorNet mobile agent platform; Bosthan; advanced smart devices; data privacy; mobile wireless communications; multiagent simulator; multiinhabitants smart spaces; pervasive computing; resource management; sensor networks; smart space topologies; smart spaces proliferation; Computational modeling; Intelligent sensors; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; Network topology; Pervasive computing; Resource management; Space technology; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing (JCPC), 2009 Joint Conferences on
Conference_Location :
Tamsui, Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5227-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5228-6
DOI :
10.1109/JCPC.2009.5420081
