Wireless sensor network is an emerging technology that may greatly affect the human life which seems effective everywhere for high level inference and surveillance. This network is composed of hundreds and thousands of sensor nodes of small size with ubiquitous sensing and computing capabilities. Here each node individually senses the environment but collaboratively achieves complex information gathering task. Recently mobile agents have been proposed for efficient data transmission in wireless sensor networks. In the traditional client/server based computing architecture, data is collected from multiple sources and forwarded to destination for further processing whereas in the mobile agent based computing architecture only task specific executable code traverses to the relevant source for gathering data. Mobile agents can be used for reducing communication cost, for efficient energy conservation, for achieving progressive fusion accuracy etc. Deploying mobile agents in wireless sensor networks provides it extra flexibilities as well as new capabilities to network in contrast with conventional wireless sensor network operation based on client server computing architecture.

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