Energy Efficient Routing In Wireless Sensor Networks Using Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm
S. Sribala · 2013
A wireless sensor network (WSN) has several number of sensor nodes and are typically battery-operated devices, and therefore energy efficiency is a major issue. In this paper we propose Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (MBFA) algorithm, an enhanced version of BFA. This algorithm is used to minimize the energy of the nodes in wireless sensor networks and it is done by the cluster formation, cluster head selection, and the data aggregation at the cluster-head nodes to minimize the redundancy and thus we can save the energy. The BFA algorithm is a bio-inspired algorithm which is inspired by the social foraging behaviour of the E.Coli bacteria. It is used for selecting the best cluster head for WSN. The Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (MBFA), which could be used for large scale optimization problems. The simulation results increases the performance of the MBFA, based on data transmission, energy consumption and number of alive nodes in the network in comparison with LEACH.