An Ant Colony Optimization-based Load Balancing Routing Algorithm for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Author

Bi, Junlei ; Li, Zhiyuan ; Wang, Ruchuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Henan Polytech. Inst., Nanyang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

11-14 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

584

Lastpage

587

Abstract

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks(WMSNs) have the characteristics of limited resources, variable channel capacities and high data redundancy, which pose great challenges to the QoS routing of WMSNs. Addressing these issues, an Ant Colony Optimization-based Load Balancing Routing Algorithm (ACOLBR) is proposed. Firstly, the intra-cluster routing is built by the minimum spanning tree. And then the inter-cluster routing is built by the improved ant colony optimization algorithm to find an optimal path and some suboptimal paths. Simulation experiments demonstrate that ACOLBR has better scalability, adaptability, load balancing and end-to-end delay compared with AGRA and M-IAR. Therefore ACOLBR can effectively prolong the network lifetime and guarantee the QoS of data transmission.

Keywords

channel capacity; data communication; multimedia communication; optimisation; quality of service; resource allocation; telecommunication network routing; wireless sensor networks; ACOLBR; AGRA; M-IAR; QoS routing; ant colony optimization-based load balancing routing algorithm; channel capacity; data transmission; end-to-end delay; high data redundancy; intracluster routing; spanning tree; suboptimal paths; wireless multimedia sensor network; Adaptation model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technology (ICCT), 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6868-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCT.2010.5688924

Filename

5688924