A survey on bio inspired meta heuristic based clustering protocols for wireless sensor networks

[摘要] Recent studies have shown that utilizing a mobile sink to harvest and carry data from a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can improve network operational efficiency as well as maintain uniform energy consumption by the sensor nodes in the network. Due to Sink mobility, the path between two sensor nodes continuously changes and this has a profound effect on the operational longevity of the network and a need arises for a protocol which utilizes minimal resources in maintaining routes between the mobile sink and the sensor nodes. Swarm Intelligence based techniques inspired by the foraging behavior of ants, termites and honey bees can be artificially simulated and utilized to solve real wireless network problems. The author presents a brief survey on various bio inspired swarm intelligence based protocols used in routing data in wireless sensor networks while outlining their general principle and operation.

[发布机构] School of Electronics Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu; 632104, India^1

[效力级别] 工业技术

[关键词] Foraging behaviors;Honey bee;Metaheuristic;Mobile sinks;Operational efficiencies;Routing data;Sink mobility