Title
Variable-Dimension Swarm Meta-Heuristic For The Optimal Placement Of Relay Nodes In Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
A wireless sensor network is a network consisting of wireless sensor nodes. There are usually requirements that need to be met when deploying a wireless sensor network, one being the placement of nodes. Due to placement requirements and limited node transmission range, a network might be partitioned initially. Therefore, additional relay nodes are added to the network to form an interconnected network. In this article, the minimum relay nodes placement problem in wireless sensor networks is addressed. This problem addresses the placement of relay nodes: the minimum number needed and where the nodes should be placed. The problem is formulated as a Steiner tree problem with minimum Steiner points and a bounded edge length problem, which is NP-hard. In this article, we present a variable-dimension meta-heuristic based on particle swarm optimization called multi-space particle swarm optimization to address the problem. We tested multi-space particle swarm optimization using randomly generated instances of the Steiner tree problem with minimum Steiner points and a bounded edge length problem of varying sizes and found that multi-space particle swarm optimization is effective in addressing the Steiner tree problem with minimum Steiner points and a bounded edge length problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1177/1550147717700895
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Relay nodes placement, swarm-based meta-heuristic, particle swarm optimization, variable dimension, Steiner tree problem
Particle swarm optimization,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Wireless,Swarm behaviour,Steiner tree problem,Computer science,Computer network,Mobile wireless sensor network,Wireless sensor network,Relay,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
3
1550-1477
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
8
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi-Han Xu1113.59
Wan-Guo Jiao220.36
Yin Wu3384.79
Jun Song472.13