Paper Info
Title
Bio-inspired ant colony optimization based clustering algorithm with mobile sinks for applications in consumer home automation networks.
Abstract
With the fast development of wireless communications, ZigBee and semiconductor devices, home automation networks have recently become very popular. Since typical consumer products deployed in home automation networks are often powered by tiny and limited batteries, one of the most challenging research issues is concerning energy reduction and the balancing of energy consumption across the network in order to prolong the home network lifetime for consumer devices. The introduction of clustering and sink mobility techniques into home automation networks have been shown to be an efficient way to improve the network performance and have received significant research attention. Taking inspiration from nature, this paper proposes an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) based clustering algorithm specifically with mobile sink support for home automation networks. In this work, the network is divided into several clusters and cluster heads are selected within each cluster. Then, a mobile sink communicates with each cluster head to collect data directly through short range communications. The ACO algorithm has been utilized in this work in order to find the optimal mobility trajectory for the mobile sink. Extensive simulation results from this research show that the proposed algorithm significantly improves home network performance when using mobile sinks in terms of energy consumption and network lifetime as compared to other routing algorithms currently deployed for home automation networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TCE.2015.7389797
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Sensors,Home automation,Clustering algorithms,Mobile communication,Algorithm design and analysis,Wireless sensor networks,Energy consumption
Ant colony optimization algorithms,Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Home automation,Cluster analysis,Wireless sensor network,Energy consumption,Mobile telephony,Network performance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
61
4
0098-3063
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
0.69
13
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wang Jin128227.83
Jiayi Cao2663.22
Bin Li331830.27
Sungyoung Lee42932279.41
R. Simon Sherratt522618.75