Bio-inspired self-healing routing to improve lifetime of wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Recent advances in Compact and wireless embedded Systems coupled with the technological innovations in Micro Electro Mechanical Systems(MEMS), Wireless Communications and networks paved the way for the development of small, resource constrained devices called Sensor Nodes (SNs). Performance of Sensor Node is highly dependent on the effective and efficient usage of the available limited resources with it, leading to maximum lifetime of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) which is a primary concern of WSNs. The depletion of a SN energy leads to change in topology of WSNs often over a period of time. Therefore, protocols which consider the dynamic nature of WSNs are crucial for improving the network lifetime. In this paper, we propose bio inspired Ant Colony optimization based Self healing routing scheme inspired by swarm Intelligence technique to improve lifetime of a WSN.