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An ant-swarm inspired dynamic multiresolution data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks

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One of the main concerns of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is to deliver useful information from data sources to users at a minimum power consumption due to constraints that sensor nodes must operate on limited power sources for extended time. In particular, achieving power-efficiency and multihop communication in WSN applications is a major issue. This paper continues on the investigation of a recently proposed Minimum-power Multiresolution Data Dissemination (MMDD) problem for WSNs (whose solution is considered here as a benchmark). We propose an ant-inspired solution to this problem. To the best of our knowledge, no attempts have been made so far in this direction. We have evaluated the performance of our proposed solution by conducting a variety of experiments and have found our solution to be promising in terms of total energy consumption in data dissemination.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Isaac Woungang

  2. Division of Information Technology, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

    Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher

  3. Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

    Lakshaya Agnani & Ankit Mahendru

  4. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Alagan Anpalagan

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Woungang, I., Dhurandher, S.K., Agnani, L. et al. An ant-swarm inspired dynamic multiresolution data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks. J Supercomput 65, 524–542 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-012-0804-8

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