Three Swarm Intelligence Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Network Applications: A review

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are increasingly realizing applications in IoT, smart grids, healthcare, security, swarm robotics, etc. Swarm Intelligence is used to optimize performance parameters associated with WSNs including localization, coverage, network lifetime, energy efficiency to name a few. The scope of this paper is restricted to a survey on Stochastic Diffusion Search, Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Algorithm with respect to their organization and capacity to optimize these network parameters and their current as well as potential applications in WSNs.