Ant Colony Optimization Based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

The authors proposed a new technique called Bio-Inspired mechanism for routing. ACO, one of the Bio-inspired mechanism, is a dynamic and reliable protocol. It provides energy-aware, data gathering routing structure in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). It can avoid network congestion and fast consumption of energy of individual node. It can also prolong the life cycle of the whole network. ACO optimizes the routing paths, providing an effective multi-path data transmission to obtain reliable communications in the case of node faults. The main goal is to maintain the maximum lifetime of a network, during data transmission in an efficient manner. This paper defines the implementation of WSN and compares its performance with AODV routing protocol based on ant algorithm. Result shows that the performance of the algorithm in comparison of AODV is much better.