Agent-based sensor network middleware using reputation mechanism over heterogeneous network environments

Sensor networks consist of various sensors and have a constraint depend on its physical characteristics. The sensor network middleware can provide with abstractions of characteristics about each sensor network to user applications. Thereby, these sensor networks can cooperate easily with traditional network through sensor network middleware platform. In this manner, agents in platform interact with each other but they have a problem such as lack of reliability. So, we propose the agent-based sensor network middleware using reputation mechanism over heterogeneous network environments to provide enhanced service discovery and agent management.