Research Challenges in using Mobile Agents for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks with Dynamic Deadlines

Recent research has provided means by which Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) with dynamic deadlines can make use of mobile agents for data aggregation. Lot of research has already been done with respect to using mobile agents in case of static wireless sensor networks. This paper proposes, along with brief explanation of research issues associated with applying mobile agents, two new techniques to improve the performance of data aggregation using mobile agents. First technique proposed in this paper makes mobile agents „intelligent‟ enough to support dynamic wireless sensor networks also. Second technique proposed shows that how multiple mobile agents can also be used, in partitions of the original given wireless sensor which are generated based on some chosen criteria, to reduce overall number of buffer overflows. Paper will be concluded with mentioning of future directions of research. General Terms Wireless Sensor Networks, Networks, Sensors, Mobile Agents.