An Energy-Balanced Ant-Based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Wang, Lin ; Zhang, Ruihua ; Geng, Shichao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Shandong Univ., Jinan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A variety of cluster based routing protocol have been proposed for wireless sensor networks. Routing problems in WSN can be summarized as: finding a path of data transmission from the source node to the sink node, which can take a smallest cost of energy consumption, at the same time can balance energy consumption of network. In this paper, we introduce the Energy-Balanced Ant-Based Routing Protocol (EBAB). EBAB describes a new adaptive dynamic routing algorithm based on simple biological "ants" that explore the network and find routes. EBAB produces clusters of unequal sizes to balance energy consumption. Clusters closer to the base station have smaller cluster sizes in order to maximize the life time of network. For sake of unequal size of cluster, we do research on optimum transmission range of sensor nodes. The operations of EBAB do not require any geographical location, angle-of-arrival and topology control.

Keywords

routing protocols; wireless sensor networks; adaptive dynamic routing algorithm; cluster based routing protocol; data transmission; energy-balanced ant-based routing protocol; sink node; source node; wireless sensor networks; Base stations; Clustering algorithms; Computer science; Costs; Data communication; Energy consumption; Heuristic algorithms; Network topology; Routing protocols; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2009. WiCom '09. 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3692-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3693-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2009.5304194

Filename

5304194