Autonomy and Cooperation as Factors of Dependability in Wireless Sensor Network
Jan Nikodem · 2008
In the paper we explore relationships between autonomy, cooperation and dependability in wireless sensors network (WSN). We consider WSN as a set of sensors deployed insome area. These sensors must act autonomously and cooperatively to achieve both their particular self-interested and global goals. In proposed approach we determine cooperation and autonomy abstractions and consider them in the context of three basic relations (sub-ordination, tolerance, collision). In such way we expand 2D space (autonomy, cooperation) onto 3D partially or totally ordered relational space. Proposed conceptual framework provides a powerful paradigm to conceive, model, support and manage dynamically organising complex systems.