Summary
IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum
2018
Session Number:SESSION04
Session:
Number:SESSION04_1
ACO-Inspired Energy-Aware Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
Ryo Yamamoto, Seira Nishibu, Taku Yamazaki, Yasushi Okamura, Yoshiaki Tanaka,
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Publication Date:2018/8/31
Online ISSN:2188-5079
DOI:10.34385/proc.32.SESSION04_1
Summary:
Multi-hop networks such as WSN attract an intensive attention as an emerging technology which plays an important role for practical IoT applications. These multi-hop networks generally consist of mobile and small terminals with limited network and terminal resources which makes the networks vulnerable to various network status changes. Moreover, the limited terminal resource, especially their limited battery capacity, is one of the most important issues to be addressed for a prolonging lifetime of the networks. For realizing efficient communications in such networks, a bunch of works has already been done especially in routing and transmission technologies. However, conventional works in the routing field still suffer from an issue called energy hole problem, which is generally caused by unbalanced communication loads due to the difficulty of adaptive route management. To address the issues, this paper proposes a novel routing algorithm, which utilizes ACO-inspired routing based on the residual energy of terminals. The performance evaluation reveals its potentials of the balanced energy consumption as well as the network work performances.