FARW: Firefly algorithm for Routing in wireless sensor networks

Firefly algorithm is a new nature inspired algorithm for optimization that needs to be explored further to solve a number of problems to show its real potential. Routing is a well known techniques for prolonging the life of the wireless sensor networks. The current work focuses on solving aforementioned related problem using firefly algorithm. The Routing algorithm is developed with novel fitness function based on residual energy, node degree and distance. The proposed algorithms are extensively tested on various scenarios to show its performance and compared with conventional algorithms such as EADC, DHCR and Hybrid Routing. Experimental results depicts that proposed algorithms performs better as compared with some existing one.