High traffic communication congestion control for wireless sensor networks based on harmony search optimization

Abstract

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), communication between the wireless nodes requires minimum response delay, minimum congestion and communication reliability. A wide variety of sensors produces a mixture of heterogeneous traffics with different reliability requirements. The article focuses on high traffic congestion which affects communication and produces latency. In the existing approaches, the congestion was controlled and the optimization was done during the time of node deployment. In the proposed method, high traffic congestion was controlled by a hop-by-hop approach which was applied in the statically deployed sensor nodes, the optimization was performed at the time of communication. To provide a uninterrupted communication to the WSNs the proposed approach analyses the occupancy ratio of the buffer and evaluates the downstream node congestion level. Here, the Harmony Search Algorithm is considered for design the optimal sensor network with Support Vector Machine (SVM). The experimental result shows the effectiveness and feasibility of the HSA-SVM environment. Also, it significantly enhances communication in diverse traffic conditions, specifically in heavy traffic areas with limited data.