Mobile Sink in Fuzzy Logic and Meta-heuristic Firefly Algorithm based Routing Scheme to Extend Network Lifetime of WSN (MSFLMFLA)

Abstract

Nowadays, wireless sensor network (WSN) improves people's lives by assisting them with a variety of applications. The major challenge in WSN is consumption of power as well as lifetime of the network. Clustering is the important method for saving energy in WSN because the separation of the sender and the receiver is related to transmission energy. In this paper we used fuzzy rules for clustering. Wireless sensor networks are susceptible to energy holes, in which sensors nearer to a static sink rapidly lose energy. To solve this problem and extend network life we used a mobile sink (MS). In this paper, a customized mobile sink node called the mobile data sender (MDS) has been tried to introduce for collecting data from the sensors by going to visit every node and then going to send this to the base station. This paper proposes nature inspired heuristic discrete firefly algorithm to optimal way accumulate information from sensor nodes in order to decrease the path travelled by the MDS while doing the tour. So, in this paper, we consider Mobile Sink in Fuzzy Logic and Meta-heuristic Firefly Algorithm based routing scheme to extend network lifetime of WSN (MSFLMFLA). Here we compare throughput and network lifetime with the static sink in FLMFLA and EHR-DC and LEACH protocol. The results of simulation shows that the MSFLMFLA increases the throughput, residual energy and also increases the data received by the sink.