An Improved Salp Swarm Algorithm for energy saving in IoT to FOG data communication

In recent years, through the rapid progress of the Internet of Things technology, minimizing the energy consumption of smart nodes in wireless communication is one of the major challenges in this area. Due to the large number of sensor nodes, which are powered by limited capacity batteries, it is impractical to replace or recharge their batteries. The major energy consumption of smart nodes is related to their network communication; therefore, optimum utilization of energy stored in each smart node is an important aspect of the IoT regarding their durability. In this paper, we suggest an Improved version of the Salp Swarm Algorithm (ISSA) for solving the problem of energy consumption in the IoT network by finding an optimal routing for transmission of smart nodes data to the FOG. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms rival algorithms by a 16.4% improvement in energy consumption.