Computational Intelligence in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

—Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are networks of distributed autonomous devices that can sense or monitor physical or environmental conditions cooperatively. WSNs face many challenges, mainly caused by communication failures, storage and computational constraints and limited power supply. Paradigms of computational intelligence (CI) have been successfully used in recent years to address various challenges such as data aggregation and fusion, energy aware routing, task scheduling, security, optimal deployment and localization. CI provides adaptive mechanisms that exhibit intelligent behavior in complex and dynamic environments like WSNs. CI brings about flexibility, autonomous behavior, and robustness against topology changes, communication failures and scenario changes. However, WSN developers are usually not or not completely aware of the potential CI algorithms offer. On the other side, CI researchers are not familiar with all real problems and subtle requirements of WSNs. This mi...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: COMSUR
• Authors: Raghavendra V. Kulkarni, A. Forster, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy
• Keywords: Computational Constraints, COMSUR 2011, Hardware, Optimal Deployment, Wireless Sensor Networks