Volume 15, Number 4

Investigation of Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Efficient Energy Utilization in Wireless Sensor Network

  Authors

Shanmugavalli R and Subashini P, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, India

  Abstract

Maintaining the energy conservation is considered as an important approach to increase the lifetime of WSN. In fact, an energy reduction mechanism is considered asthe main concept to enhance the lifespan of the network. In this paper, the performance analysis/evaluation of optimization technique, specifically, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and modified ACO (m-ACO) in the routing method are investigated. This network analysis is done by 100 iterations and differentiated with 50, 75 and 100 numbers of nodes. Finally, experimental results illustrate that the performance of m-ACO algorithm obtained the obvious performance,which is comparatively better than ACO algorithm, because it improves the routing efficiency by pheromone evaporation control and energy threshold value. It demonstrates that m-ACO algorithm gives better results than ACO in terms of throughput (1.41%), transmission delay (1.43%), packet delivery ratio (1.41%), energy consumption (2.05%), and the packet loss (9.70%). The convergence rate is analysed for ACO and m-ACO algorithms with respect to 100 number of iterations for WSNs.

  Keywords

Nature Inspired Computational (NIC) Algorithms, Energy Efficiency, Route Discovery, Convergence Rate and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)