A survey on mobile-agent middleware design principals and itinerary planning algorithms

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are used in many applications like environmental monitoring, infrastructure security, healthcare applications, and traffic control. It has been also proven recently that using Mobile Agent (MA) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can drastically help to obtain the flexibility of application-aware deployment. Middleware is software that provides a common platform for the flexibility and heterogeneity in WSN, enabling multiple applications to work parallel on a distributed network. We firstly investigate the various approaches of middleware design and number of conventional single MA itinerary planning based schemes, the order of sensory data source nodes to be visited during the MA migration, which has a significant impact on the performance of the MA systems and its effectiveness, is proved by conducting the extensive experiments in professional environment.