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Repeated and continuous transmission of data to the sink leads to energy loss in all the nodes in case of flat WSN. Especially, depletion of energy is highly acute in case of nodes that are near to the sink. Conventionally known as energy sink-hole problem, it causes early failure of the network even when there is a substantial amount of residual energy left in it. Though the research fraternity has been continuously addressing this problem and even has provided various solutions to deal with it, the use of mobile agents to meet the above-stated problem is still in its infancy. The paper proposes a mobile agent-based solution for solving energy sink-hole problem. The proposed solution aims to extend the network life by reducing redundant data being passed to the nodes near to the sink thereby reducing the load and saving battery life. The algorithm is implemented using aglets and the analytical results show significant improvement in the network lifetime.
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Yadav, M., Sethi, P., Juneja, D., Chauhan, N. (2018). An Agent-Based Solution to Energy Sink-Hole Problem in Flat Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Lobiyal, D., Mansotra, V., Singh, U. (eds) Next-Generation Networks. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 638. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6005-2_27
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