Research Paper on Firefly Optimized Leach to Reduce Energy Consumption

Abstract

The recent advances in information and communication technologies enable fast development and practical applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The operation of the WSNs including sensing and communication tasks needs to be planned properly in order to achieve the application-specific objectives. The WSNs consist of a number of sensor nodes equipped with microprocessor, wireless transceiver, sensing components and energy source. These sensor nodes operate as autonomous devices to perform different tasks including sensing, communication and data processing. We made this protocol more efficient by using optimization algorithm to choose the cluster head optimally amongst all nodes in the cluster. A new evolutionary firefly Algorithm (FA) is used which is advanced than efficient PSO algorithm and more fast converging and accurate algorithm. We optimised the cluster head based on energy and distance from other neighboring nodes by this FA algorithm and achieves high residual energy than PSO optimised LEACH and conventional LEACH protocol for the same network parameters.