Determination of Itinerary Planning for Multiple Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks

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Amine Rais
KHALID BOURAGBA
Mohamed Ouzzif

Abstract

The mobile agent is a new technology in wireless sensor networks that outperforms the traditional client/server architecture in terms of energy consumption, end to end delay and packet delivery ratio. Single mobile agent will not be efficient for large scale networks. Therefore, the use of multiple mobile agents will be an excellent solution to resolve the problem of the task duration especially for this kind of networks. The itinerary planning of mobile agents represents the main challenge to achieve the trade-off between energy consumption and end to end delay. In this article we present a new algorithm named Optimal Multi-Agents Itinerary Planning (OMIP). The source nodes are grouped into clusters and the sink sends a mobile agent to the cluster head of every cluster; which migrates between source nodes, collects and aggregates data before returning to the sink. The results of the simulations testify the efficiency of our algorithm against the existing algorithms of multi-agent itinerary planning. The performance gain is evident in terms of energy consumption, accumulated hop count and end to end delay of the tasks in the network.

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Rais, A., BOURAGBA, K., & Ouzzif, M. (2022). Determination of Itinerary Planning for Multiple Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security (IJCNIS), 10(1). https://doi.org/10.17762/ijcnis.v10i1.3081 (Original work published April 17, 2018)
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Author Biographies

Amine Rais, HASSAN II University of CASABLANCA

Rais Amine was born in Morocco in 1984, and received his Bsc and Msc degree in computer science from the department of mathematics and informatics in the college of sciences at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdullah University, FEZ, Morocco, in 2006 and 2008 respectively. He is now working toward the Ph.D. at RITM Laboratory in the National High School of Electricity and Mechanic (ENSEM) at Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco; he served as a member of organization comity of the third edition of SYSCO’2016 conference. He published several articles in the international conference proceedings, and his main interest fields include clustering and mobile agents in wireless sensor networks.

KHALID BOURAGBA, HASSAN II University of CASABLANCA

Bouragba Khalid received his Msc degree in networking and telecom From Chouaib Doukkali University of El Jadida, Morocco, in 2002, and Ph.D. degree in computer science from Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco, in 2012. Currently, he is a professor of computer engineering at the Superior School of Technology of Casablanca, and a member of the RITM laboratory at ENSEM. His research domains are: distributed computing, workflow interoperability, networks and systems management, requirement engineering, and sensor networks.

Mohamed Ouzzif, HASSAN II University of CASABLANCA

Ouzzif Mohamed received his Ph.D. degree in the field of collaborative systems at the University Mohamed V - Rabat Morocco. He is a professor of computer engineering at the Superior School of Technology of Casablanca, Morocco and he served as a chair of the computer department from 2006 to 2010. He is a member of the RITM laboratory at ENSEM. He published almost 70 articles in international conferences and journals. He served as the co-chair of the third edition of SYSCO'2016 conference and a technical committee member in many leading conferences in Morocco. Currently, his research interests concern distributed and collaborative systems, sensor networks, data mining and big data.