Autonomic computing in heterogeneous sensor networks

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The objective of this research is to investigate new technologies that are targeted to support autonomic computing in multi-tier heterogeneous sensor networks. Autonomic computing systems are distributed computer systems that can manage themselves and therefore their complexities are invisible to end users. These systems rely heavily on feedback within the network to adapt their behaviour. Unlike sensor networks that simply collect and distribute sensory data to end users, an autonomic sensor network can aggregate and interpret sensory data and make decisions in the network that can affect the collection and routing of data within the network. A multi-tier sensor network is a sensor network that utilizes several different protocols; typically one layer will leverage Internet-based protocols (a SensorWeb) while the other layers use protocols