Power Reduction of Wireless Sensor Networks Using Ant Colony Optimization

Author

Shih, Hong-Chi ; Chu, Shu-Chuan ; Roddick, John F. ; Hung, Mao-Hsiung ; Pan, Jeng-Shyang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Kaohsiung Univ. of Appl. Sci., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

26-28 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

464

Lastpage

467

Abstract

Power consumption is one of the most important problems for wireless sensor networks because of the battery limitation in each sensor. This paper presents an ant colony optimization- (ACO-) based routing algorithm to reduce power consumption. First, a grade table is built and referred to generate several possible routing paths. Then, the ACO explores these paths to reduce the power consumption of the nodes. The simulations indicate that the proposed algorithm obtains more balanced transmission among the nodes and reduces the power consumption of the routing.

Keywords

optimisation; power consumption; telecommunication network routing; wireless sensor networks; ant colony optimization; battery limitation; grade table; power consumption; power reduction; routing algorithm; routing path; wireless sensor network; Ad hoc networks; Batteries; Broadcasting; Power demand; Routing; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; ant colony optimization; power reduction; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taiyuan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8785-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CASoN.2010.110

Filename

5636915