Mobility Based Genetic Algorithm Hierarchical Routing Protocol in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSN) are the overgrowth and emerging technology. Routing process in MWSN is more complicated than static one. Therefore, many routing protocols have been implemented recently for MWSN to accomplish progress in energy consumption field. This paper presents a Mobility based Genetic Algorithm Hierarchical routing Protocol (MGAHP) to achieve maximum lifetime of the network and improve the stable period of MWSN. The basic idea of the proposed MGAHP protocol is using Genetic Algorithm (GA) to find the optimum number of Cluster Heads (CHs) and their locations depending on minimizing the energy consumption of the sensor nodes. Simulation results exhibited that the proposed MGAHP protocol gives better improvement in energy efficient than LEACH-M, CBR-Mobile, and MACRO protocols.