Cluster Head Selection for Single and Multiple data Sinks in Heterogeneous WSN using Wild Horse Optimization

Enhancing a network lifetime by balancing energy as well as minimizing delay is a significant aim of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Besides, number of clustering approaches are developed to this process through selecting the optimum Cluster Heads (CHs) in heterogeneous WSN, but it has a significant challenge. In this research, the Wild Horse Optimization (WHO)-based Optimized Clustering approach for single and multiple data sinks is proposed for optimizing CH selection through combining the parameters of sink distance, residual energy in its formulated fitness function. The proposed method achieves better results and it is evaluated by various performance metrices like residual energy, network lifetime, throughput, alive nodes, FND as well as LND and it achieves the values of about each as 61.37, 98.36, 7.8, 96.39, 6129 and 8347 respectively when compared to the existing methods such as Energy-Efficient CH selection utilizing Improved version of Grey Wolf Optimization-based (EECHIGWO) and Enhanced Pelican Optimization Algorithm for the CH Selection (EPOA-CHS).