Multiple Optimal Path Identification using Ant Colony Optimisation in Wireless Sensor Network
Aniket Gurav, Manisha J. Nene · International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks · 2013
Wireless Sensor Network WSN is tightly constrained for resources like energy, computational power and memory.Many applications of WSN require to communicate sensitive information at sensor nodes SN to Base station BS.The basic performance of WSN depends upon the path length and numbers of nodes in the path by which data is forwarded to BS.In this paper we present bio-inspired Ant Colony Optimisation ACO algorithm for Optimal Path Identification OPI for packet transmission to communicate between SN to BS.Our modified algorithm OPI using ACO is base-station driven which considers the path length and the number of hops in path for data packet transmission.This modified algorithm finds optimal path OP as well as several suboptimal paths between SN & BS which are useful for effective communication.