MBEEC: A bio-inspired routing protocol with multihop between cluster-heads for energy saving in WSN

This paper presents a Multihop Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks (MBEEC) based on the Dijkstra Algorithm. An important challenge in wireless sensor networks is to balance the energy consumption. The Bio-Inspired Algorithm for Energy Efficient Routing for Continuous Data Dissemination Networks Wireless Sensor (BEE-C) can provide important savings on energy consumption but does not provide routing calculations that ensures a long lived topology. Lifetime is an extremely important factor in a Wireless Sensor Network, because of the difficulty of maintenance, limited battery, memory and processing that sensors have. MBEEC inherits the properties of BEE-C but uses Dijkstra Algorithm for calculating the routes. To ensure the longer lifetime of the network, MBEEC addresses a multihop algorithm in terms of consumption in a matter more energy efficient than BEE-C using Dijkstra to calculate routes, thus balancing the entire network.