NICTA Open Sensor-web Architecture (NOSA)

The continuing growth in high speed networks has made it possible to build distributed applications that can exploit large numbers of cheap computers for data storage and computation. For example, power and bandwidth constraints have a direct impact on the design of applications that use wireless sensor networks. Unless we can find ways to shield the application developer from these low level constraints, the cost of developing reliable sensor network applications will be prohibitive. The challenge that we address in this project is how to develop a layer of software services that hide the complexity of the underlying computing infrastructure from the application developer.

Coordination languages for sensor-actuation networks

Our aim is to develop a framework for building applications on a distributed computing infrastructure. This framework will define and implement the software services that are needed for data-aggregation, routing, load balancing, network monitoring and security management. We will also build an integrated development environment and simulation tool for application developers. The agentlabs involvement in the project concerns the building of a multi-agent coordination language to support the development and simulation of new applications. In particular, we are focusing on the development of applications for wireless sensor networks.

This project is a National ICT Australia (NICTA) project, conducted within the Networks Information Processing program of the NICTA Victoria Laboratory

Agentlab contact for NOSA project: Adrian Pearce

Web site: Networks Information Processing

Publications: Agent specification and programming languages