A Swarm-based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks are a new emerging area where swarm intelligence can be applied with interesting implications. In fact, a strong analogy between unicellular organism colonies and wireless sensor networks can be emphasized: a sensor network can be viewed as a "colony" of simple, sc...

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Published inSixth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2007) pp. 265 - 268
Main Authors Paone, M., Paladina, L., Bruneo, D., Puliafito, A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.07.2007
Subjects
Analytical models
Electronic mail
Fault tolerance
Intelligent sensors
Organisms
Particle swarm optimization
Performance analysis
Routing protocols
Traffic control
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:Wireless sensor networks are a new emerging area where swarm intelligence can be applied with interesting implications. In fact, a strong analogy between unicellular organism colonies and wireless sensor networks can be emphasized: a sensor network can be viewed as a "colony" of simple, scarce resource nodes that, autonomously, are able only to perform simple tasks, but all together can accomplish very complex problems. In this paper we propose a routing protocol with interesting properties: self organization, fault tolerance and environmental adaptation. The proposed protocol was inspired by the well known behavior (in artificial life studies) of "Slime Mold". Such colony of unicellular organisms organizes itself in clusters by pheromone generation and evaporation mechanisms. In a similar manner our protocol manages the data traffic in clusters towards the sink nodes using the gradient concept and reaching high levels of autonomy. We analyze the proposed protocol to examine the performances and the adaptation properties using simulation techniques.
ISBN:0769529224
9780769529226
DOI:10.1109/NCA.2007.2