Increasing Efficiency of Sensor Nodes by Clustering in Section Based Hybrid Routing Protocol with Artificial Bee Colony
Amrendra Singh Yadav, Kumari Khushboo, Vikalp Kumar Singh, Dharmender Singh Kushwaha
Abstract
Sensor networks have been the area of interest for researcher community during the past few years due to its wide range of application and because of its limitations too. Sensor nodes, which are the key elements of these networks are small autonomous devices with limited processing power, limited battery capacity and also have limited memory. Short lifespan is one of the major challenges faced by these networks as the sensor nodes are deployed in the environments where the human intervention is difficult and hence replacing the batteries of the node is a tedious task. Many algorithms and protocols have come up from time to time with different ideas for improving the lifetime of the network by minimizing the consumption of battery which is mainly due to communication. This paper briefly discusses some of the algorithms for routing in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) with their challenges and the motivation behind proposing the Section Based Hybrid Routing Protocol (SBHRA) for WSN using Artificial Bee Colony. The design of the protocol is especially done for the network that has been divided into sections and uses hybrid routing for data transmission in Heterogeneous environment. The experimental results show that SBHRA gives stability periods that increased by 55.88% and life time of normal node is increased by 64.04% as compared with Enhanced Stable Election Protocol (E-SEP) protocol. The goal is to improve the throughput, stability and the lifetime of the network.