A bio-inspired architecture for division of labour in SANETs

TH Labella, F Dressler - Proceedings of the 1st international conference …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Bio inspired models of …, 2006dl.acm.org
Division of labour is one of the possible strategies to efficiently exploit the resources of
autonomous systems. It is also a phenomenon often observed in animal systems. We show
an architecture that implements division of labour in Sensor/Actuator Networks. The way the
nodes take their decisions is inspired by ants' foraging behaviour. The preliminary results
show that the architecture and the bio-inspired mechanism successfully induce self-
organised division of labour in the network. The experiments were run in simulation. We …
Division of labour is one of the possible strategies to efficiently exploit the resources of autonomous systems. It is also a phenomenon often observed in animal systems. We show an architecture that implements division of labour in Sensor/Actuator Networks. The way the nodes take their decisions is inspired by ants' foraging behaviour. The preliminary results show that the architecture and the bio-inspired mechanism successfully induce self-organised division of labour in the network. The experiments were run in simulation. We developed a new type of simulator for this purpose. Key features of our work are cross-layer design and exploitation if inter-node interactions. No explicit negotiation between the agents takes place.
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