A Bee colony inspired clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

A Wireless Sensor Network consists of enormous amount of sensor nodes. These sensor nodes sense the information from the sensing region and transmit to the sink. From the sink a client can access the required information. Essential part of the wireless sensor network is the sensor nodes that are driven with the batteries. Prolonging the network lifetime is very difficult and expensive in many conditions (eg. resource exploration in hostile locations, wildlife safety etc). Dividing the sensing area into clusters is advantages in wireless sensor network to enhance network lifetime. In this paper, Bee colony inspired clustering protocol is introduced which takes of inspiration for achieving high efficiency and stability performance from bee colonies. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of proposed protocol to strike the appropriate performance in the lifetime of the wireless sensor network.