Improvised Energy Efficient Routing Protocol based on Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) for Wireless Sensor Networks

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2017 in the subject Computer Science - Miscellaneous, , course: Ph.D Computer Science, language: English, abstract: Routing and Energy Efficiency is regarded as highly challenging area of Sensor networks. Significant advancements in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) opens doors for wide implementation in real-time applications like Industrial Monitoring, Smart Cities development, Underwater monitoring operations, tracking objects and many more. Energy Efficient routing is regarded as the most challenging task. Sensor networks mostly operate in complex and dynamic environments and routing becomes tedious task to maintain as the network size increases. Lots of routing protocols- Reactive, Proactive and Hybrid are proposed by researchers but every protocol faces some limitations in terms of energy, routing, packet delivery ratio and security. Therefore, to overcome all the routing issues, the trend has shifted to Biological based Algorithms like Swarm Intelligence based techniques. Ant Colony Optimization based routing protocols have demonstrated exceptional results in terms of performance when applied to WSN routing. This thesis outlines routing protocols in sensor networks, highlight the concept of Swarm Intelligence and presents various Ant Colony Optimization based routing protocols for sensor networks. In addition to this, we present Ant Colony based Energy Efficient routing protocol (IEEMARP = Improvised Energy Efficient Multipath Ant Based Routing Protocol) for sensor networks. The proposed protocol takes into consideration various performance metrics like Packet Delivery Ratio, Throughput, Energy Efficiency, Routing Overhead and End-to-End delay. Proposed protocol is simulated and tested using NS-2.35 simulator. Simulation based results stated that IEEMARP routing protocol is overall 16% more efficient in terms of Packet delivery ratio, Energy Efficiency, Throughput, Routing Overhead and End-to-End delay as compared to other ACO based routing protocols. In addition to this, IEEMARP is highly reliable protocol to ensure timely delivery with acknowledgement packet exchange between source node to sink node and vice versa and also combats the issue of congestion and packet dropping to large extent.

Dr. Anand Nayyar (Academician, Researcher, Author, Writer, Inventor, Innovator, Scientist, Consultant and Orator) received MCA from Punjabi University, Patiala in 2008 with Gold Medal and Distinction. He received his M.Phil in Computer Science in 2009 in 1st Division from V.M.U, Tamil Nadu. He received his M.Tech in Information Technology in 2011 with Distinction cum University Topper. He received his MBA in Information Systems from Sikkim Manipal University with 1st Division. He has done his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Desh Bhagat University, Mandi Gobindgarh in Area of Wireless Sensor Networks and Swarm Intelligence. He is a certified professional in more than 75 International Certifications. He has published more than 250 Research Papers in various National and International Conference and National and International Referred Journals (Scopus, Thomson Reuters, SCI, SCIE). He has published 18 Books in different subjects of Computer Science with National and International publishers. He has reviewed more than 5200 Research Papers for various National and International journals and various National and International conferences. He has guided 7 M.Tech (5=CSE) & (2=ECE) students and 30 MCA students for thesis and projects respectively. He is a part of more than 300 Research Journals as Editorial Board member, Review Board Member, Associate Editor. He has been associated with more than 250 National and International Conferences as Advisory Board, Technical Programme Committee and Reviewer Committee Member cum Panelist. He is among top cited Researcher in area of Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile Adhoc Networks and Next Generation Network by Google Scholar. He has acted as Session Chair and Session Co-Chair in more than 20 National Conferences and 20 International Conferences and also 8 National/International Conferences as Keynote Speaker. He has delivered more than 15 talks in different Faculty Development Programs across the country. He is member of more than 50 International & National Research Societies.