An energy-balanced ant-based routing protocol for wireless sensor networks

Authors:
Lin Wang;Ruihua Zhang;Shichao Geng
Affiliations:
School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, P.R.China;School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, P.R.China;School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, P.R.China
Venue:
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Year:
2009

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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.