TY - GEN
T1 - Energy-efficient and location-aware ant colony based routing algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
AU - Domínguez-Medina, Christian
AU - Cruz-Cortés, Nareli
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In recent years, advances in miniaturization, low-power circuit design, simple, low power, yet reasonably efficient wireless communication equipment, and improved small-scale energy supplies have combined with reduced manufacturing costs to make a new technological vision possible, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). As WSN are still a young research field, much activity is still on-going to solve many open issues. One is the data routing problem. As the size of the network increases, this problem becomes more complex due the amount of sensor nodes in the network. The meta-heuristic Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) has been proposed to solve this issue. ACO based routing algorithms can add a significant contribution to assist in the maximisation of the network lifetime and in the minimisation of the latency in data transmissions, but this is only possible by means of an adaptable and balanced algorithm that takes into account the WSN main restrictions, for example, memory and power supply. A comparison of two ACO based routing algorithms for WSN is presented, taking into account current amounts of energy consumption under a WSN scenario proposed in this work. Furthermore, a new routing algorithm is defined.
AB - In recent years, advances in miniaturization, low-power circuit design, simple, low power, yet reasonably efficient wireless communication equipment, and improved small-scale energy supplies have combined with reduced manufacturing costs to make a new technological vision possible, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). As WSN are still a young research field, much activity is still on-going to solve many open issues. One is the data routing problem. As the size of the network increases, this problem becomes more complex due the amount of sensor nodes in the network. The meta-heuristic Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) has been proposed to solve this issue. ACO based routing algorithms can add a significant contribution to assist in the maximisation of the network lifetime and in the minimisation of the latency in data transmissions, but this is only possible by means of an adaptable and balanced algorithm that takes into account the WSN main restrictions, for example, memory and power supply. A comparison of two ACO based routing algorithms for WSN is presented, taking into account current amounts of energy consumption under a WSN scenario proposed in this work. Furthermore, a new routing algorithm is defined.
KW - Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
KW - Network lifetime
KW - Routing algorithms
KW - Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84860400403&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2001576.2001593
DO - 10.1145/2001576.2001593
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:84860400403
SN - 9781450305570
T3 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO'11
SP - 117
EP - 124
BT - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO'11
T2 - 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO'11
Y2 - 12 July 2011 through 16 July 2011
ER -