Toward biology-inspired solutions for routing problems of wireless sensor networks with mobile sink

How to choose the optimal route path finding, enhance the communication capacity of the whole network for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and prolong the lifetime of the network is a basic problem of WSNs. We draw an inspiration from the single-celled organism-Slime Mold physarum polycephalum of foraging process in this paper, combined with the traditional clustering algorithm to design routing scheme. The application of traditional clustering algorithm and mobile sink technology in WSNs is the basis of this scheme design. The simulation results show that compared with the existing routing protocol, the new scheme can effectively improve the self-adaptation of the network, reduce the energy consumption and improve the overall performance of the network under the complicated network environment.