Intelligent Interference Minimization Algorithm for Optimal Placement of Sensors using BBO

Abstract

In wireless sensor networks, the performance metric such as energy conservation becomes paramount. One of the fundamental problems of energy drains is due to the interference of sensors during sensing, transmission, and receiving data. The issue of placing sensors on a region of interest to minimize the sensing and communication interference with a connected network is NP-complete. In order to overcome the existing problem, we have proposed a new work for interference minimization technique for optimal placement of sensors by employing biogeography-based optimization scheme. An efficient habitats representation, objective function derivation, migration, and mutation operators are adopted in the scheme. The simulations are performed to obtain the optimal position for sensor placement. Finally, the energy-saving of the network is compared with and without interference aware sensor nodes placement. © 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.