Research and Simulation on Genetic Ant Colony Routing in Wireless Sensor Network

In the routing design of the wireless sensor networks, how to balance the energy consumption of the entire network to extend the life span throughout the network is a key issue. Based on the genetic ant colony algorithm, this paper proposed a design of the energy-saving, clustered routing protocol. Considering of the energy situations of the nodes, their relative positions and the energy load balancing of the whole network, this protocol makes overall clustering of the network, utilizes the distributed computing and the global path optimization of the genetic ant algorithm to realize the minimum energy consumption and the extending of the network survival time.