Title: Cuckoo Search for data gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors: M. Dhivya; M. Sundarambal

Addresses: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore, Coimbatore 641047, Tamil Nadu, India. ' Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore 641014, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: In this paper a meta-heuristic optimisation technique, Cuckoo Search (CS) is used to aggregate data in the Sensor Network. In the proposed technique, the least energy nodes are formed as subordinate chains (or) clusters for sensing the data and high energy nodes as Cluster Head for communicating to the Base Station (BS). The modified CS is proposed to get enhanced network performance incorporating balanced energy dissipation and results in the formation of optimum number of clusters and minimal energy consumption. The feasibility of the scheme is manifested by the simulation results on comparison with the traditional cluster based routing methods.

Keywords: WSNs; wireless sensor networks; clustering; cuckoo search; energy efficiency; modified Cuckoo search; mobile communications; network lifetime; wireless networks; routing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2011.042781

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2011 Vol.9 No.6, pp.642 - 656

Published online: 04 Oct 2011 *

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