Jing Yang; Wei Zhao; Mai Xu; Baoguo Xu

A Multipath Routing Protocol Based on Clustering and Ant Colony Optimization for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Jing Yang ^1,2,* Wei Zhao ³ Mai Xu ⁴ Baoguo Xu ¹

1. School of Communication and Control Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, P.R. China

2. College of Electrical Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, P.R. China

3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China

4. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2009.01.07

Received: 1 Apr. 2009 / Revised: 10 Jun. 2009 / Accepted: 13 Aug. 2009 / Published: 8 Oct. 2009

Index Terms

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), clustering, multipath, ant colony optimization (ACO)

Abstract

For monitoring burst events in a kind of reactive wireless sensor networks (WSNs), a multipath routing protocol (MRP) based on dynamic clustering and ant colony optimization (ACO) is proposed.. Such an approach can maximize the network lifetime and reduce the energy consumption. An important attribute of WSNs is its limited power supply, and therefore in MRP, some metrics (such as energy consumption of communication among nodes, residual energy, path length) are considered as very important criteria while designing routing. Firstly, a cluster head (CH) is selected among nodes located in the event area according to some parameters, such as residual energy. Secondly, an improved ACO algorithm is applied in search for multiple paths between the CH and sink node. Finally, the CH dynamically chooses a route to transmit data with a probability that depends on many path metrics, such as energy consumption. The simulation results show that MRP can prolong the network lifetime, as well as balance energy consumption among nodes and reduce the average energy consumption effectively.

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Jing Yang, Wei Zhao, Mai Xu, Baoguo Xu,"A Multipath Routing Protocol Based on Clustering and Ant Colony Optimization for Wireless Sensor Networks", International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security(IJCNIS), vol.1, no.1, pp.49-59, 2009. DOI:10.5815/ijcnis.2009.01.07

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