Distributed Agent-based Computing in Material-Embedded Sensor Network Systems with the Agent-on-Chip Architecture

Zusammenfassung (Abstract) :

Distributed material-embedded systems like sensor networks integrated in sensorial materials require new data processing and communication architectures. Reliability and robustness of the entire heterogeneous environment in the pres- ence of node, sensor, link, data processing, and communication failures must be offered, especially concerning limited service of material-embedded systems after manufacturing. In this paper, multiagent systems with state-based mobile agents are used for computing in unreliable mesh-like networks of nodes, usually consisting of a single microchip, introducing a novel design approach for reliable distributed and parallel data processing on embedded systems with static resources. An advanced high- level synthesis approach is used to map the agent behavior to multiagent systems implementable entirely on microchip-level supporting agent-on-chip (AoC) processing architectures. The agent behavior, interaction, and mobility are fully integrated on the microchip using a reconfigurable pipelined communicating process architecture implemented with finite-state machines and register-transfer logic. The agent processing architecture is related to Petri Net token processing. A reconfiguration mech- anism of the agent processing system achieves some degree of agent adaptation and algorithmic selection. The agent behavior, interaction, and mobility features are modeled and specified with an activity-based agent behavior programming language. Agent interaction and communication is provided by a simple tuple- space database implemented on node level and signals providing remote inter-node level communication and interaction.

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