Agent-based Energy-efficient Routing algorithm in wireless sensor networks

With the development of wireless sensor networks, the routing protocol shall concern about not only the energy consumption of a single node, but also the balance of energy consumption across the whole network, so as to maximize the lifetime of the network. In the paper, we introduced agent into wireless sensor networks, proposed an Agent-based Energy-efficient Routing Protocol. The simulation results show that the scheme takes into account both nodes energy and path consumption, can balance energy consumption of the network nodes, and prolongs the lifetime of the network in a more efficient way.