Location Tracking in a Wireless Sensor Network by Mobile Agents and Its Data Fusion Strategies

• Main Authors: Sheng-Po Kuo, 郭聖博
• Other Authors: Yc-Chee Tseng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75622135168171634472

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 資訊工程系 === 91 === Context-aware computing, also known as pervasive computing or sentient computing, is a new popular research field. The feature of the context-aware computing is the integration of mobile computing and intelligent environment. The intelligent environment possesses various knowledge of objects. Among these knowledge, the location of an object is the most important information. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to propose a novel tracking protocol based on the mobile agent paradigm. Using mobile agents may have two advantages. First, the sensing, computing, and communication overheads can be greatly reduced because the local processing property. Second, on-site or follow-me services may be provided by mobile agents. With the mature of the wireless technology which integrates with the location information closely, the high performance tracking protocol is more essential. Thus, the distributed, robust, and power-efficient tracking protocol proposed in this thesis is totally pratically.