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In wireless ad-hoc networks, nodes are generally equipped with batteries, making energy a scarce resource. Therefore, power consumption of network operations is critical and subject to optimization. One of the fundamental problems in ad-hoc networks is broadcasting. In this work we consider the so-called minimum energy broadcast (MEB) problem, which can be stated as a combinatorial optimization problem. We develop an ant colony optimization algorithm for two scenarios: networks in which nodes are equipped with omni-directional, respectively directional, antennas. The results show that our algorithm consistently outperforms other methods for this problem.
This work was supported by grants TIN2005-08818 (OPLINK) and TIN2007-66523 (FORMALISM) of the Spanish government, and by the EU project FRONTS (FP7-ICT-2007-1). Christian Blum acknowledges support from the Ramón y Cajal program of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, whereas Guillem Francès acknowledges support from a UPC research grant.
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Hernández, H., Blum, C., Francès, G. (2008). Ant Colony Optimization for Energy-Efficient Broadcasting in Ad-Hoc Networks. In: Dorigo, M., Birattari, M., Blum, C., Clerc, M., Stützle, T., Winfield, A.F.T. (eds) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence. ANTS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5217. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87527-7_3
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