Dragon Fly Optimization with Multi-Attributes Hybrid Approach for
Cluster Head selection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
In Wireless Sensor Network, there are many tiny sensors that plays vital
role in various technologies and cluster head selection is an important
issues for data transmission. As cluster heads receives data from sensor
nodes and sends data after aggregation to the base station. Appropriate
cluster heads selection leads to efficient energy consumption and
enhances network lifetime. For solving this issue many solutions has
been given considering some attributes but with time meta-heuristics
algorithms were now widely used for real world applications. Nature
inspired algorithm has seeking wide attention of researchers as it gives
the capability to self-learn and has better performance. In this paper
we have proposed Dragon Fly algorithm which is inspired by dynamic and
static behavior of dragon fly. We have first use LEACH for energy model
and also compute multi-attributes of sensor nodes using MADM
(multi-attributes decision making) accordingly. After this, then the
proposed algorithm NDFMA is applied where Dragon fly algorithm and MADM
used for optimized selection of cluster heads. The proposed algorithm
has been evaluated in terms of numbers of alive nodes, dead nodes,
energy consumption, throughput and number of packets sends. NDFMA method
suggested that it performs better than other state-of-the art
algorithms. The proposed method is way to compute multi-attributes of
sensor nodes for ranking them and selecting optimized cluster heads.
NDFMA algorithm has been compared with NBA, LEACH and ESO-LEACH which
validates that the new proposed algorithm is performing better than the
classical and compared algorithm.