A Review on Energy Consumption Optimization Techniques in IoT Based Smart Building Environments

In recent years, due to the unnecessary wastage of electrical energy in residential buildings, the requirement of energy optimization and user comfort has gained vital importance. In the literature, various techniques have been proposed addressing the energy optimization problem. The goal of each technique was to maintain a balance between user comfort and energy requirements such that the user can achieve the desired comfort level with the minimum amount of energy consumption. Researchers have addressed the issue with the help of different optimization algorithms and variations in the parameters to reduce energy consumption. To the best of our knowledge, this problem is not solved yet due to its challenging nature. The gap in the literature is due to the advancements in the technology and drawbacks of the optimization algorithms and the introduction of different new optimization algorithms. Further, many newly proposed optimization algorithms which have produced better accuracy on the benchmark instances but have not been applied yet for the optimization of energy consumption in smart homes. In this paper, we have carried out a detailed literature review of the techniques used for the optimization of energy consumption and scheduling in smart homes. The detailed discussion has been carried out on different factors contributing towards thermal comfort, visual comfort, and air quality comfort. We have also reviewed the fog and edge computing techniques used in smart homes

Discrete Artificial Bee Colony for Computationally Efficient Symbol Detection in Multidevice STBC MIMO Systems

A Discrete Artificial Bee Colony (DABC) is presented for joint symbol detection at the receiver in a multidevice Space-Time Block Code (STBC) Mutli-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communication system. Exhaustive search (maximum likelihood detection) for finding an optimal detection has a computational complexity that increases exponentially with the number of mobile devices, transmit antennas per mobile device, and the number of bits per symbol. ABC is a new population-based, swarm-based Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) presented for multivariable numerical functions and has shown good performance compared to other mainstream EAs for problems in continuous domain. This algorithm simulates the intelligent foraging behavior of honeybee swarms. An enhanced discrete version of the ABC algorithm is presented and applied to the joint symbol detection problem to find a nearly optimal solution in real time. The results of multiple independent simulation runs indicate the effectiveness of DABC with other well-known algorithms previously proposed for joint symbol detection such as the near-optimal sphere decoding, minimum mean square error, zero forcing, and semidefinite relaxation, along with other EAs such as genetic algorithm, estimation of distributions algorithm, and the more novel biogeography-based optimization algorithm

Ant with Artificial Bee Colony Techniques in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

A VANET faces many problems due to dynamic changing of networks with certain requirements such as low delay, high (PDR) packet delivery ratio, low routing overhead and throughput. However, numerous routing protocols have been suggested to meet the demands of Quality of Service (QoS), but none of them can consistently maintain the highest level of QoS simultaneously. The proposed method Ant with Artificial Bee Colony Techniques provides better performance when compared to the existing techniques. This work is compared with latest developed Techniques in VANET to find the best path and different performance metrics are used to check the performance. This work premeditated the comparative analysis of Quality of services made by the performance of latest emerging techniques in VANET and will provide the best solution for the recognition problem in finding the best path based on the evaluation of performance of Quality of Service. Simulation results imply the benefits of the proposed Ant with Artificial Bee Colony Techniques (AABC) produces better result when compare to the other conventional method and Ant Colony Techniques(ACT)in terms of high packet delivery ratio, less end-to-end delay and less energy consumption level. The performance is evaluated by using Ns2 simulator and results shows that the AABC successfully achieve the optimal routes