ZigBee Network Construction Method Based on Metaheuristics Algorithms Using Angle Modulation Function

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks have great potential to realize state observation in large scale areas. A ZigBee network is one of the world standards for short-range wireless sensor networks. Previous studies have proposed the application of Discrete binary Particle Swarm Optimization(DPSO), which is one of swarm intelligence algorithms, to sensor networks. However, DPSO has a problem that the performance deteriorates when the target problem becomes large scale. This paper proposes a new scheme that uses Angle Modulation based algorithms to detect the most effective allocation of routers in a ZigBee network. In the proposed scheme, an Angle Modulation function is applied to the search algorithm to generate a bit string for solving the binary problems. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated through simulation experiments.