BeeSensor: A bee-inspired power aware routing protocol for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are becoming an active area of research. They consist of small nodes with limited sensing, computation and wireless communication capabilities. The success of WSNs in real world applications is primarily dependent on a key requirement: ability to provide a communication infra-structure for dissemination of sensed data to a sink node in an energy efficient manner. Therefore, in this paper we propose a bee-inspired power aware routing protocol, BeeSensor, that utilizes a simple bee agent model and requires little processing and network resources. The results of our extensive experiments demonstrate that BeeSensor delivers better performance in a dynamic WSNs scenario as compared to a WSN optimized version of Adhoc Ondemand Distance Vector (AODV) protocol while its computational and bandwidth requirements are significantly smaller. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.