Energy Efficient Ant Colony Optimization based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

ACO(Ant Colony Optimization) is proved to be better technique for many applications. State of the art techniques about application of ACO for routing in wireless sensor networks (WSN) have been published in many articles. This is proved to be energy efficient as well as better in performance. In this paper we are proposing an algorithm for ACO based routing in which routing decision is based ACO pheromone parameter as well as remaining energy of the WSN node. Results of implementation show that proposed method is more energy efficient.