Title
A multipath routing protocol based on clustering and ant colony optimization for wireless sensor networks.
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 their limited power supply, and therefore some metrics (such as energy consumption of communication among nodes, residual energy, path length) were considered as very important criteria while designing routing in the MRP. 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 the 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 of energy consumption among nodes and reduce the average energy consumption effectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.3390/s100504521
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless sensor networks (WSNs),clustering,multipath,ant colony optimization (ACO)
Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Multipath routing,Link-state routing protocol,Dynamic Source Routing,Computer science,Computer network,Wireless Routing Protocol,Ad hoc wireless distribution service,Wireless sensor network,Zone Routing Protocol,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
5.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
40
1.24
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jing Yang1587.08
Mai Xu250957.90
Wei Zhao35221.04
Baoguo Xu47813.67