Section based hybrid routing protocol for WSN using artificial bee colony

Wireless sensor network is a network consists of large number of sensors and a base station. There are many novel architectures, algorithms, protocols implemented so far but one of the major issues in wireless sensor network is to develop an energy efficient routing protocol which affects the stability and overall lifetime of the network. Clustering of nodes is one of the effective techniques used to improve energy, scalability and lifetime. The proposed protocol is a Section Based Hybrid Routing Protocol for heterogeneous WSN using Artificial Bee Colony (SBHRA). There are some nodes which send data directly to base station and other uses clustering technique to transmit data to base station (BS). The hybrid technique minimizes energy consumption of sensors and increases the network lifetime and throughput of the network.