下面的论文很有意思,感兴趣可阅读一下,文献也很丰富。感谢作者的研究。 Summary Many natural and man-made systems exhibit self-organization, where interactions among components lead to system-wide patterns of behavior. This paper first introduces current, scientific understanding of self-organizing systems and then identifies the main models investigated by computer scientists seeking to apply self-organization to design large, distributed systems. Subsequently, the paper surveys research that uses models of self-organization in wireless sensor networks to provide a variety of functions: sharing processing and communication capacity;forming and maintaining structures; conserving power; synchronizing time; configuring software components;adapting behavior associated with routing, with disseminating and querying for information, and with allocating tasks; and providing resilience by repairing faults and resisting attacks. The paper closes with a summary of open issues that must be addressed before self-organization can be applied routinely during design and deployment of senor networks and other distributed, computer systems.