Proposing a method based on Ants algorithm for optimizing energy consumption and routing in wireless sensor networks

The most important issue in wireless sensor networks is intense limitation of energy. Since efficiency of these networks depends on network life time and the network coverage, applying saving energy algorithms in designing sensor networks with long life time is an important issue. Wireless sensor networks have been created based on harmony in a lot of sensor nodes. To reduce energy consumption in nodes, one can use unequal clustering mechanism. To face clustering overflow in this paper, we use Ants Colony Optimization method to create multi-jump Energy-efficiency paths. Offered protocol has been compared with two touchstone protocols. The simulation results show that the offered protocol is much more efficient than two other protocols in saving energy and it also increases the longevity of network