A New Energy-efficient Multi-hop Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy use of sensor nodes efficiently and extending the lifetime of heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (HWSNs) is a main goal of HWSNs routing optimization methods, and therefore building an energy-efficient routing protocol becomes critical for HWSN performance improvement. They present an energy-efficient routing protocol based on the grey wolf optimizer (GWO) and the Tabu search algorithm (TSA) in this paper. Proposed routing system with primary objectives include clustering and the selection of cluster heads (CH) utilizing GWO with a fitness function based on the residual energy of sensor nodes and the average distance between CH and sink nodes base station (BS ) due to the mobility of sensors, the quality of service (QoS) parameters such as reliability and energy consumption can be improved by discovering multiple optimized paths for data transmission from CH to BS and by TSA selecting the optimal route from CH to BS based on the forwarding of reliable route packets (FRRPs). The experimental results indicate that the proposed grey wolf optimizer with tabu Search Algorithm (GWO-TSA) can reduce HWSNs energy consumption by 10% and 20%, increase lifetime by 13% and 18%, and finally increase throughput by 6% and 14% when compared to the genetic algorithm with tabu search algorithm (GA-TSA) and grey wolf optimizer with crow search algorithm (GWO-CSA). When compared to GA-TSA & GWO-CSA, simulation reveals that the proposed GWO-TSA protocol improves HWSNs performance by minimizing energy consumption, maximizing network lifetime, and boosting network throughput.

@article{Sadek2021,
  title     = {A New Energy-efficient Multi-hop Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {12},
  number    = {11},
  year      = {2021},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Rowayda A. Sadek and Doha M. Abd-alazeem and Mohamed M. Abbassy},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121154},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121154}
}