H-IECBR: HBO based-Improved Energy Efficient Chain Based Routing protocol in WSN

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network of various tiny nodes which are mostly deployed in the remote areas to monitor the environmental attributes like temperature, humidity etc. In this paper we have optimized the routing path in IECBR (Improved Energy Efficient Chain Based Routing) protocol which is one of the most recent techniques based on PEGASIS (Power Efficient Gathering in Sensor Information System). We have used Honey Bee Optimization (HBO) technique to select the next node which is to be added for the chain construction for the data transmission from the network to the base station. The energy and distance are the two parameters which are exploited as optimization parameters. It is evident from the simulation results that the H-IECBR (Honey bee optimization based IECBR) improves the first node dead by 56 % and network lifetime by 116% as compare to the IECBR. The proposed protocol H-IECBR is favorite to the applications where the network area is not scalable due to some inevitable constraints.