Abstract
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 mismatch makes collaboration and development difficult. This paper intends to close this gap and foster collaboration by offering a detailed introduction to WSNs and their properties. an extensive survey of CI applications to various problems in WSNs from various research areas and publication venues is presented in the paper. Besides, a discussion on advantages and disadvantages of CI algorithms over traditional WSN solutions is offered. in addition, a general evaluation of CI algorithms is presented, which will serve as a guide for using CI algorithms for WSNs. © 2005 IEEE.
Recommended Citation
R. V. Kulkarni et al., "Computational Intelligence in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey," IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 68 - 96, article no. 5473889, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Communications Society, Mar 2011.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/SURV.2011.040310.00002
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Clustering; computational intelligence; data aggregation; deployment; design; localization; quality of service; routing; scheduling; security; sensor fusion; wireless sensor networks
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1553-877X
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2024 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Communications Society, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Mar 2011
Comments
National Science Foundation, Grant 0348221