IEEMARP: Improvised Energy Efficient Multipath Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Introduction: This article is the result of the research “Energy efficient routing protocols in wireless sensor network: Examine the impact of M-SEEC routing protocols on the lifetime of WSN with an energy efficient TABU optimization routing protocol”developed in the IKG, Punjab Technical University, India in 2019.Problem: The task of finding and maintaining routes in WSNs is non-trivialsince energy restrictions and sudden changes in node status cause frequent and unpredictable changes.Objective: The objective of this paper is to propose an energy efficient heterogeneous protocolwith the help of a hybrid meta-heuristic technique.Methodology: In the hybrid meta-heuristic technique, the shortest route has been selected and the data forwarded to the sink in a minimal time span,savingenergy and making the network more stable. To evaluate the technique, a new hybrid technique has been created where the data transmission is implemented from the beginning under MATLAB 2013a.Results: The proposed technique is better than the existing ones since the remaining energy in the network is increased by 62% compared to normal nodes in MSEEC, 65% compared to advanced nodes in MSEEC and 70% compared to super nodes in MSEEC. The network lifetime was also enhanced by 70.8% compared to MSEEC.Conclusion: The proposed protocol was found to be superior based on the average residual energy.This paper proposes an efficient routing mechanism towards the energy efficient network.Originality: Through this research, a novel version of MSEEC protocol is carried out using the TABU search mechanism to generate the functions of two neighbourhoods to detect the optimum path with the aim of maximizing the network lifetime in an area of 200×200m2.Limitations: The lack of other routing techniques falls under swarm intelligence.

<p>Energy efficiency has been considered as the most important issue in wireless sensor networks. As in many applications, wireless sensors are scattered in a wide harsh area, where the battery replacement or charging will be quite difficult and it is the most important challenge. Therefore, the design of energy saving mechanism becomes mandatory in most recent research. In this paper, a new energy efficient clustered routing protocol is proposed: the proposed protocol is based on analyzing the data collected from the sensors in a base-station. Based on this analysis the cluster head will be selected as the one with the most useful data. Then, a variable time slot is specified to each sensor to minimize the transmission of repetitive and un-useful data. The proposed protocol Data-Based Energy Efficient Clustered Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensors Networks (DCRP) was compared with the famous energy efficient LEACH protocol and also with one of the recent energy efficient routing protocols named Position Responsive Routing Protocol (PRRP). DCRP has been used in monitoring the floods in Tabuk area –Saudi Arabia. It shows comparatively better results.</p>

In recent times, different routing protocols have been proposed in the Internet of Things enabled Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (IoT-UWSNs) to explore the underwater environment for different purposes, i.e., scientific and military purposes. However, high Energy Consumption (EC), End to End (E2E) delay, low Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) and minimum network lifetime make the energy efficient communication a challenging task in Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN). The high E2E delay, EC and reliable data delivery are the critical issues, which play an important role to enhance the network throughput. So, this paper presents two energy efficient routing protocols namely: Shortest Path-Collision avoidance Based Energy Efficient Routing (SP-CBE2R) protocol and Improved-Collision avoidance Based Energy Efficient Routing (Im-CBE2R) protocol. At this end, both routing protocols minimize the probability of void hole occurrence and in return minimizes the EC and E2E delay. In both routing protocols, courier nodes are positioned at different strategic locations to keep the greedy forwarding continuous. The proposed routing protocols are also analyzed by varying the Packet Size (PS) and Data Rate (DR). Additionally, various simulations have been performed to authenticate the proposed routing protocols. Simulation results show that the proposed routing protocols outperform the baseline routing protocols in counterparts.

Designing and development of energy effective path planning algorithm is very key research domain in order to tackle the issues of limited life-time for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). So in WSNs, energy efficiency is major concern of researchers. Overall advancement in routing protocols prove that clustering is much better approach as compared to flat and location-based energy efficient routing protocols. Due to better performance, multiple energy efficient clustering routing protocols have been proposed. But existing clustering algorithms are centralized or distributed, which are not intelligent enough and do not produce hybrid cluster-head selection. In this paper, we propose a cluster structured path planning algorithm named, Hybrid Advance Distributed Centralized Clustering (HADCC) path planning energy efficient algorithm. HADCC proposed model is fascinated with hybrid cluster head selection algorithm. This hybrid algorithm makes decision of cluster head selection of nodes. In order to execute proposed model we have also proposed an advance network topology, in which the whole network region is divided into two physical levels. First physical level consists of a circular region, containing homogeneous normal nodes and all important Base Station. While, second physical level is outer region of the circle that contains advanced heterogeneous nodes. Simulation results indicate that HADCC prolongs the network lifetime as compared to existing advanced clustering routing protocols for both homogeneous and heterogeneous WSNs. HADCC outperforms in case of stability and network life time as compared to the existing clustering algorithms.

The very challenging requirement of WSN is energy efficiency, which depends upon the distributed design and dynamic topology of the network. This requirement can be fulfilled by the multi-hop energy efficient routing protocols. The objective of all the energy efficient protocols is to extend the network’s lifetime. Sensor nodes are battery operated, so generally concern of all routing protocols is to conserve energy. In this chapter, energy efficient protocols are categorized into two types (i) heterogeneity based energy efficient routing protocols and (ii) chain based energy efficient routing protocols. Comparisons of various energy efficient routing protocols are specified here with open issues. A systematic and comprehensive taxonomy of various energy aware schemes are discussed in depth. This chapter is focused on various energy conservation schemes and hence, discussion of various routing protocols gives the readers a new insight.

Due to its utility in a range of disciplines, the wireless sensor network (WSN) has gained significant attention in the present trend, including ocean monitoring systems, wide life, industrial plants, earthquake warning units, combat units, and so on. A WSN’s expense and structural complexity are all quite relatively less. In a WSN, a sensor node (SN) receives the information from the aerosphere or surroundings. Since a SN has a very low-power battery (LPB), it stops working if a battery power is depleted. Due to the widespread network topology, it is impossible to recharge the battery once it has been depleted. An SN that is not functional can cause the routing protocol to fail. A routing protocol, in most cases, allows an efficient routing path between SNs. Data security via the WSN is always a major concern that must be handled. Almost all of the researchers have discussed their ideas for a WSN routing system that is both energy efficient and secure. Such energy-efficient strategies, secure routing techniques, routing protocol classifications, and WSN attacks are all discussed in this survey article. The research gap is explored in relation to recent work on energy efficient and secure routing technologies.KeywordsWSNEnergy efficiencyRouting protocolSensor nodesSecurity techniquesLEACHFEESR

Introduction: Routing protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are of major concern because of the important factors like energy efficiency and reliability. Opportunistic Routing (OR) is the simplest and reliable routing technique for ad-hoc networks and WSN. The OR protocol guarantees data delivery in the network. As WSN need energy-efficient routing, therefore, energy- efficient OR protocols gained popularity in the last three years. Objectives: Opportunistic routing improves the performance of the network by utilizing the broadcasting abilities of wireless channels. In this paper, a new energy-efficient and reliable routing protocol has been proposed that is based on the opportunistic routing technique. Methods: The proposed protocol is based on the energy-efficient routing metric. The proposed OR protocol prioritizes among the candidate forwarders on the basis of energy-efficient routing metric and this will lead to the achievement of improved network lifetime. Results: The end-to-end delay is reduced because of the selection of candidate forwarders from the neighbor list of each node. The proposed protocol uses selective acknowledgment mechanisms. The simulation results of the proposed protocol depict the improved performance as compared to other recent OR protocols. Conclusion: The proposed protocol can directly be used with existing WSN applications. Further improvements can be made by utilizing more parameters like distance and the quality of transmission.

Routing in sensor networks is very challenging compared to contemporary communication and wireless ad–hoc networks. This is attributed to several characteristics that distinguish them from such networks. Transmitting data from every sensor node within the deployment region might result in significant and unnecessary redundancy in data and incur avoidable energy and traffic expenditure; thus, a routing protocol which is able to select a set of sensor nodes and utilise data aggregation during the relaying of data is of great importance. Furthermore, timely delivery of data is required in many applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), such as real–time target tracking in battle environments, emergent event triggering in monitoring applications impose the need of efficient routing protocol. In this paper, we propose a data routing scheme which ensures increased network lifetime by exploiting energy efficiently, supporting reliability, fast delivery of delay–sensitive data and achieving low–cost sensor design. Simulation results demonstrate that, the proposed routing scheme outperforms related existing approaches in terms of all the evaluation metrics such as packet delivery ratio, energy efficiency and timely delivery of data.

An energy efficient routing protocol is the major concern in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In this survey paper, we present energy efficient hierarchical routing protocols, developed from conventional LEACH routing protocol. Main focus of our study is how these extended protocols work in order to increase the life time and how quality routing protocol are improved for WSNs. Furthermore, this paper also highlights some of the issues faced by LEACH and also explains how these issues are tackled by extended versions of LEACH. We compare the features and performance issues of the selected hierarchical routing protocols.

Wireless sensor networks contains small sensor node and processor which have several issues and challenges with regards to Limited Computational Capacity, Energy Efficiency, Path Planning Overhead and many more. Entire lifetime of network depends on efficient energy consumption in sensor network so it is a challenging task to design an Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor nodes dynamically self-organize themselves without utilizing preexisting infrastructure. Problem becomes more complex if some sensor node having mobility for some particular instance. In this paper we proposed an energy efficient routing protocol for WSN motivated by swarm intelligence of rummage behavior of ant and also covered mobility behavior of node. Furthermore we have combined the fuzzy logic with behavior of ant to take a better decision to find optimal path with less energy consumption. Our proposed algorithm utilize the principle of Fuzzy logic in addition of Ant Colony Optimization to develop energy efficient routing. The performance of our proposed work is evaluated on QualNet 7.4 Network Simulator. The simulation result shows that the proposed technique optimize the energy consumption, decrease RREQ packet and increase the lifetime of network as compare to existing routing protocol.

Energy efficient routing protocols can potentially reduce the amount of energy consumed in packet forwarding. However, existing literature lacks studies on improving green performance of geocast routings for the Internet of Vehicles. Therefore, this study proposes an energy efficient min delay (EEMD)-based geocast routing protocol to find optimal relay nodes by incorporating energy consumption and packet delivery delay. We introduce energy efficiency in packet forwarding as a more appropriate indicator than energy consumption. We present a green protocol model and analyze its green networking performance in packet forwarding. Extensive simulation shows that our designed EEMD protocol allows efficient energy-saving data forwarding under various vehicular traffic conditions.

The vital part to prolong the active time of Wireless Senor Network (WSN) is to reduce the transmission energy consumption between individual nodes/path belonging to the network. In order to minimize the transmission energy consumption in the network, a novel methodology called a “sleeping pill” packet into the network has been proposed. This technique has reduced 4% of energy consumption in a transmission experiment for 10,000 packets at -25dBm transmission power. This transmission experiment was carried out by transmitting a new packet of size 108 bytes for every 3 seconds leading to a total transmission time of 8 hours 33 minutes. This methodology has a potential to increase the lifetime of the network to about 60% for multi-hop multipath routing protocols. These measurements and comparisons are first step towards energy efficient multi-hop routing protocol in a mesh network. This study also investigates various connectivity issues and energy consumption scenario that prevail in real world situation. The experiments were done and analyzed various performance issues which arise due to deployment/distribution of the sensor for the multi-hop network according to the environment. These experiments provide more insights to reduce the packet loss and effective energy utilization of the nodes in the network. One of the focuses of this research work is on establishing the correlation between Link Quality Indicator (LQI) values to the Packet delivery ratio (PDR) based on environment. These methodical analyses play an important role in energy efficient mesh routing protocol and deployment.

ABSTRACTWireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are utilized mostly for the collection of data, specifically to perform complex schemes. Thus, the issues of sensor networks and mission‐critical sensors are the implementation of Energy Efficiency (EE) routing protocols. Thus, the EE routing protocol in the WSN model is developed in this work to improve the lifespan of the network for the WSN. The Fuzzy C‐Means (FCM) clustering is performed for generating cluster groups and here the CHs are optimized using the Best and Worst Fitness of Sailfish Whale Optimization (BWF‐SWO). To further evaluate the efficacy of the network, the fitness function is considered by Intra and Inter‐cluster Distance and Residual Energy. To determine the efficiency of the routing process, diverse constraints like shortest path distance, throughput, energy consumption, hop count, latency, and Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) are considered. In the end, the performance is calculated using divergent parameters and contrasted against existing methodologies. From the results, the energy consumption of the implemented EE protocol in WSN is minimized by 55% of RPO, 10% of COA, 20% of SFO, and 50% of WOA appropriately when the node count is 100. Thus, the findings explored that the proposed protocol achieved enriched outcomes on energy‐efficient routing in the WSN model.

Due to miniaturization of hardware and availability of low-cost, low-power sensors, Wireless Sensor Network and Multimedia Sensor Network applications are increasing day by day. Each application has a specific quality of service and experience requirements. The design of routing and MAC protocol which can fulfill the requirements of the application is challenging given the constrained nature of these devices. Considerable efforts are directed towards the design of energy efficient QoS-aware routing protocols. In this article, we present state of the art review of routing protocols for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks while addressing the challenges and providing insight into research issues.

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are widely applied in monitoring and communication but remain constrained by limited energy resources. Efficient routing protocols are critical to prolong network lifetime and ensure balanced energy consumption among sensor nodes. Traditional cluster-based routing often fails to achieve optimal energy balance, leading to premature node failures and degraded performance. Intelligent optimization algorithms, including meta heuristics such as particle swarm optimization (PSO) and emperor penguin optimization (EPO), have been applied to improve routing efficiency. These methods enhance convergence and adaptability but typically operate as standalone approaches. Limited attention has been given to integrating multi criteria decision making (MCDM) methods with meta heuristics. Without this integration, assigning precise weights to multiple criteria and balancing energy consumption across nodes remains difficult. This paper proposes a novel uneven cluster-based routing protocol that integrates fuzzy constrained nonlinear programming- variable weight analysis-technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (FCNP-VWA-TOPSIS) with an improved EPO. The protocol first assigns accurate weights to seven multi criteria using FCNP VWA and selects cluster heads (CHs) with TOPSIS. It then constructs the routing tree using improved EPO guided by the weighted fitness function. Extensive simulations show that the proposed protocol achieves superior energy balance, extending network lifetime by 158.0%, 119.3%, and 113.7% compared to uneven clustering routing (UCR), unequal clustering fuzzy logic intelligent algorithm (UCFIA), and fuzzy multi-criteria clustering and bio-inspired energy-efficient routing (FMCB ER), respectively. By combining MCDM and meta heuristic optimization, the protocol advances cluster-based routing in WSNs, significantly enhancing energy efficiency and reliability for real world applications.