Energy Efficient Clustering Using Improved Particle Swarm Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks

College of Technical Engineering, University of Alkafeel, Najaf, Iraq

^* Corresponding Author: zainabsabah@alkafeel.edu.iq

Abstract

The Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) includes many low-cost nodes that have the capacity to perceive, operate, and communicate wirelessly. WSN can spread the information to all around through a cooperative node approach. It also has many advantages in terms of both cost and cooperative intelligence. In a wireless sensor network, nodes have limited energy resources, so their life cycle is considered as one of the main concerns about wireless sensor networks. Energy efficiency grouping and routing are two well-known issues in optimization that have been widely studied in order to increase the lifetime of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, an improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) clustering algorithm for energy efficiency network management is introduced in order to find a route for creating optimal clusters. To evaluate the efficiency of the proposed clustering algorithm, this algorithm is simulated and compared with the particle swarm optimization(PSO) algorithm based on parameters such as network energy, number of live nodes and network life.