title: P-bRS: a physarum-based routing scheme for wireless sensor networks.
abstract: Routing in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is an extremely challenging issue due to the features of WSNs. Inspired by the large and single-celled amoeboid organism, slime mold Physarum polycephalum, we establish a novel selecting next hop model (SNH). Based on this model, we present a novel Physarum-based routing scheme (P-bRS) for WSNs to balance routing efficiency and energy equilibrium. In P-bRS, a sensor node can choose the proper next hop by using SNH which comprehensively considers the distance, energy residue, and location of the next hop. The simulation results show how P-bRS can achieve the effective trade-off between routing efficiency and energy equilibrium compared to two famous algorithms.
authors.affiliation: Information Engineering College, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.
authors.forename: Mingchuan
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5958-881X
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Information Engineering College, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.
authors.forename: Wangyang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Information Engineering College, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.
authors.forename: Ruijuan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: Information Engineering College, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.
authors.forename: Qingtao
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D016839:Physarum polycephalum / Q000737:chemistry*; D059015:Wireless Technology