The Application of Ant Colony Optimization in Wireless Sensor Network Routing

The paper proposes wireless sensor clustering routing protocol based on ant colony algorithm(ACO). The method firstly uses the network self-topology to get a stable cluster structure based on modularity clustering algorithm; secondly make a new cluster-head selection function according to each cluster node residual energy and the distribution of cluster node; then we propose inter-cluster multi-hop routing algorithm based on ant colony optimization, which in order to balance the energy between consumption on the transmission path and residual one of cluster-head node, developing new ant transmission probability and pheromone updating strategy, we verify the validity of algorithm through simulation.