Distance based Modelling and Optimization of Wireless Sensor Network Energy Consumption with Adaptive Clustering using Genetic Algorithm

Wireless sensor network (WSN), as one of the most important technologies due to its wide variety of applications, consists of various densely deployed sensor nodes inside or very near to application area. WSNs work with several limitations related to resources like battery power, bandwidth, memory and etc. and hence node goes out of energy where it's impossible to recharge or replace the battery of nodes. It has been proved that, long communication distance between sensor nodes and base station (BS) can drain the energy. This paper proposes an approach to optimize the WSN energy consumption of nodes via optimizing the number of clusters that minimizes the transmission distance, for maximizing network lifetime. A genetic algorithm is proposed for sensor nodes clustering to find the optimal number of cluster heads that reduces the energy consumption. The proposed solution considers the communication distance, as a main factor, which is formulated as an objective function to be optimized for the mathematical model constrained by the number of cluster heads. The results were conducted using the proposed GA for different instances with different settings such as the population size, number of cluster-heads, and number of generations. The experimental results show that the algorithm achieved good results and it converges toward the optimal solution through the generations for the different instances. Moreover, the proposed approach reduces the energy consumption more efficient when compared with hierarchical clustering algorithm on minimizing the communicating distance. It is recommended to scale the algorithm to consider a trade-off between the total intra-cluster communication distance and total distance of cluster-heads to BS as a future work

Routing schemes in FANETs: a survey

Flying ad hoc network (FANET) is a self-organizing wireless network that enables inexpensive, flexible, and easy-to-deploy flying nodes, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), to communicate among themselves in the absence of fixed network infrastructure. FANET is one of the emerging networks that has an extensive range of next-generation applications. Hence, FANET plays a significant role in achieving application-based goals. Routing enables the flying nodes to collaborate and coordinate among themselves and to establish routes to radio access infrastructure, particularly FANET base station (BS). With a longer route lifetime, the effects of link disconnections and network partitions reduce. Routing must cater to two main characteristics of FANETs that reduce the route lifetime. Firstly, the collaboration nature requires the flying nodes to exchange messages and to coordinate among themselves, causing high energy consumption. Secondly, the mobility pattern of the flying nodes is highly dynamic in a three-dimensional space and they may be spaced far apart, causing link disconnection. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the limited research work of routing schemes in FANETs. Different aspects, including objectives, challenges, routing metrics, characteristics, and performance measures, are covered. Furthermore, we present open issues

Wildfire Monitoring Based on Energy Efficient Clustering Approach for FANETS

Forest fires are a significant threat to the ecological system’s stability. Several attempts have been made to detect forest fires using a variety of approaches, including optical fire sensors, and satellite-based technologies, all of which have been unsuccessful. In today’s world, research on flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) is a thriving field and can be used successfully. This paper describes a unique clustering approach that identifies the presence of a fire zone in a forest and transfers all sensed data to a base station as soon as feasible via wireless communication. The fire department takes the required steps to prevent the spread of the fire. It is proposed in this study that an efficient clustering approach be used to deal with routing and energy challenges to extend the lifetime of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in case of forest fires. Due to the restricted energy and high mobility, this directly impacts the flying duration and routing of FANET nodes. As a result, it is vital to enhance the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to maintain high system availability. Our proposed algorithm EE-SS regulates the energy usage of nodes while taking into account the features of a disaster region and other factors. For firefighting, sensor nodes are placed throughout the forest zone to collect essential data points for identifying forest fires and dividing them into distinct clusters. All of the sensor nodes in the cluster communicate their packets to the base station continually through the cluster head. When FANET nodes communicate with one another, their transmission range is constantly adjusted to meet their operating requirements. This paper examines the existing clustering techniques for forest fire detection approaches restricted to wireless sensor networks and their limitations. Our newly designed algorithm chooses the most optimum cluster heads (CHs) based on their fitness, reducing the routing overhead and increasing the system’s efficiency. Our proposed method results from simulations are compared with the existing approaches such as LEACH, LEACH-C, PSO-HAS, and SEED. The evaluation is carried out concerning overall energy usage, residual energy, the count of live nodes, the network lifetime, and the time it takes to build a cluster compared to other approaches. As a result, our proposed EE-SS algorithm outperforms all the considered state-of-art algorithms.publishedVersio

Selection of Cluster Heads for Wireless Sensor Network in Ubiquitous Power Internet of Things

This paper designs a selection algorithm of cluster heads (CHs) in wireless sensor network (WSN) under the ubiquitous power Internet of Things (UPIoT), aiming to solve the network failure caused by premature death of WSN sensors and overcome the imbalance in energy consumption of sensors. The setting of the cluster head node helps to reduce the energy consumption of the nodes in the network, so the choice of cluster head is very important. The author firstly explains the low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) and the distance and energy based advanced LEACH (DEAL) protocol. Compared with the LEACH, the DEAL considers the remaining nodal energy and the sensor-sink distance. On this basis, the selectivity function-based CH selection (SF-CHs) algorithm was put forward to select CHs and optimize the clustering. Specifically, the choice of CHs was optimized by a selectivity function, which was established based on the remaining energy, number of neighbors, motion velocity and transmission environment of sensors. Meanwhile, a clustering function was constructed to optimize the clustering, eliminating extremely large or small clusters.Finally, the simulation proves that the DEAL protocol is more conducive to prolonging the life cycle of the sensor network. The SF-CHs algorithm can reduce the residual energy variance of nodes in the network, and the network failure time is later, which provides a way to improve the stability of the network and reduce energy loss

An Adaptive Vehicle Clustering Algorithm Based on Power Minimization in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

In this paper, we propose an adaptive vehicle clustering algorithm based on fuzzy C-means algorithm, which aims at minimizing power consumption of the vehicles. Specifically, the proposed algorithm firstly dynamically allocates the computing resources of each virtual machine in the vehicle, according to the popularity of different virtualized network functions. The optimal clustering number to minimize the total energy consumption of vehicles is determined using the fuzzy C-means algorithm and the clustering head is selected based on vehicles moving direction, weighted mobility, and entropy. Simulation results are provided to confirm that the proposed algorithm can decrease the power consumption of vehicles while satisfying the vehicle delay requirement

Barnacles Mating Optimizer with Hopfield Neural Network Based Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things Environment

Owing to the development and expansion of energy-aware sensing devices and autonomous and intelligent systems, the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained remarkable growth and found uses in several day-to-day applications. Currently, the Internet of Things (IoT) network is gradually developing ubiquitous connectivity amongst distinct new applications namely smart homes, smart grids, smart cities, and several others. The developing network of smart devices and objects allows people to make smart decisions with machine to machine (M2M) communications. One of the real-world security and IoT-related challenges was vulnerable to distinct attacks which poses several security and privacy challenges. Thus, an IoT provides effective and efficient solutions. An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a solution for addressing security and privacy challenges with identifying distinct IoT attacks. This study develops a new Barnacles Mating Optimizer with Hopfield Neural Network based Intrusion Detection (BMOHNN-ID) in IoT environment. The presented BMOHNN-ID technique majorly concentrates on the detection and classification of intrusions from IoT environments. In order to attain this, the BMOHNN-ID technique primarily pre-processes the input data for transforming it into a compatible format. Next, the HNN model was employed for the effectual recognition and classification of intrusions from IoT environments. Moreover, the BMO technique was exploited to optimally modify the parameters related to the HNN model. When a list of possible susceptibilities of every device is ordered, every device is profiled utilizing data related to every device. It comprises routing data, the reported hostname, network flow, and topology. This data was offered to the external modules for digesting the data via REST API model. The experimental values assured that the BMOHNN-ID model has gained effectual intrusion classification performance over the other models

Differential Evolution in Wireless Communications: A Review

Differential Evolution (DE) is an evolutionary computational method inspired by the biological processes of evolution and mutation. DE has been applied in numerous scientific fields. The paper presents a literature review of DE and its application in wireless communication. The detailed history, characteristics, strengths, variants and weaknesses of DE were presented. Seven broad areas were identified as different domains of application of DE in wireless communications. It was observed that coverage area maximisation and energy consumption minimisation are the two major areas where DE is applied. Others areas are quality of service, updating mechanism where candidate positions learn from a large diversified search region, security and related field applications. Problems in wireless communications are often modelled as multiobjective optimisation which can easily be tackled by the use of DE or hybrid of DE with other algorithms. Different research areas can be explored and DE will continue to be utilized in this contex

Task scheduling mechanisms for fog computing: A systematic survey

In the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, some processing is done near data production sites at higher speeds without the need for high bandwidth by combining Fog Computing (FC) and cloud computing. Fog computing offers advantages for real-time systems that require high speed internet connectivity. Due to the limited resources of fog nodes, one of the most important challenges of FC is to meet dynamic needs in real-time. Therefore, one of the issues in the fog environment is the optimal assignment of tasks to fog nodes. An efficient scheduling algorithm should reduce various qualitative parameters such as cost and energy consumption, taking into account the heterogeneity of fog nodes and the commitment to perform tasks within their deadlines. This study provides a detailed taxonomy to gain a better understanding of the research issues and distinguishes important challenges in existing work. Therefore, a systematic overview of existing task scheduling techniques for cloud-fog environment, as well as their benefits and drawbacks, is presented in this article. Four main categories are introduced to study these techniques, including machine learning-based, heuristic-based, metaheuristic-based, and deterministic mechanisms. A number of papers are studied in each category. This survey also compares different task scheduling techniques in terms of execution time, resource utilization, delay, network bandwidth, energy consumption, execution deadline, response time, cost, uncertainty, and complexity. The outcomes revealed that 38% of the scheduling algorithms use metaheuristic-based mechanisms, 30% use heuristic-based, 23% use machine learning algorithms, and the other 9% use deterministic methods. The energy consumption is the most significant parameter addressed in most articles with a share of 19%. Finally, a number of important areas for improving the task scheduling methods in the FC in the future are presented

Navigating the IoT landscape: Unraveling forensics, security issues, applications, research challenges, and future

Given the exponential expansion of the internet, the possibilities of security attacks and cybercrimes have increased accordingly. However, poorly implemented security mechanisms in the Internet of Things (IoT) devices make them susceptible to cyberattacks, which can directly affect users. IoT forensics is thus needed for investigating and mitigating such attacks. While many works have examined IoT applications and challenges, only a few have focused on both the forensic and security issues in IoT. Therefore, this paper reviews forensic and security issues associated with IoT in different fields. Future prospects and challenges in IoT research and development are also highlighted. As demonstrated in the literature, most IoT devices are vulnerable to attacks due to a lack of standardized security measures. Unauthorized users could get access, compromise data, and even benefit from control of critical infrastructure. To fulfil the security-conscious needs of consumers, IoT can be used to develop a smart home system by designing a FLIP-based system that is highly scalable and adaptable. Utilizing a blockchain-based authentication mechanism with a multi-chain structure can provide additional security protection between different trust domains. Deep learning can be utilized to develop a network forensics framework with a high-performing system for detecting and tracking cyberattack incidents. Moreover, researchers should consider limiting the amount of data created and delivered when using big data to develop IoT-based smart systems. The findings of this review will stimulate academics to seek potential solutions for the identified issues, thereby advancing the IoT field.Comment: 77 pages, 5 figures, 5 table

Innovative Technologies and Services for Smart Cities

A smart city is a modern technology-driven urban area which uses sensing devices, information, and communication technology connected to the internet of things (IoTs) for the optimum and efficient utilization of infrastructures and services with the goal of improving the living conditions of citizens. Increasing populations, lower budgets, limited resources, and compatibility of the upgraded technologies are some of the few problems affecting the implementation of smart cities. Hence, there is continuous advancement regarding technologies for the implementation of smart cities. The aim of this Special Issue is to report on the design and development of integrated/smart sensors, a universal interfacing platform, along with the IoT framework, extending it to next-generation communication networks for monitoring parameters of interest with the goal of achieving smart cities. The proposed universal interfacing platform with the IoT framework will solve many challenging issues and significantly boost the growth of IoT-related applications, not just in the environmental monitoring domain but in the other key areas, such as smart home, assistive technology for the elderly care, smart city with smart waste management, smart E-metering, smart water supply, intelligent traffic control, smart grid, remote healthcare applications, etc., signifying benefits for all countries