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Enhanced Metaheuristics with Trust Aware Route Selection for Wireless Sensor Networks

by A. Francis Saviour Devaraj¹, T. Satyanarayana Murthy², Fayadh Alenezi³, E. Laxmi Lydia⁴, Mohamad Adzhar Md Zawawi⁵, Mohamad Khairi Ishak^5,*

1 Department of IT, The University of Technology and Applied Sciences-Ibri, PO Box: 466, Ibri, Postal Code: 516, Sultanate of Oman
2 Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
3 Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Saudi Arabia
4 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vignan’s Institute of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam, 530049, India
5 School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, 14300, Penang, Malaysia

* Corresponding Author: Mohamad Khairi Ishak. Email:

Computer Systems Science and Engineering 2023, 46(2), 1431-1445. https://doi.org/10.32604/csse.2023.034421

Received 16 July 2022; Accepted 22 November 2022; Issue published 09 February 2023

Abstract

Recently, a trust system was introduced to enhance security and cooperation between nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSN). In routing, the trust system includes or avoids nodes related to the estimated trust values in the routing function. This article introduces Enhanced Metaheuristics with Trust Aware Secure Route Selection Protocol (EMTA-SRSP) for WSN. The presented EMTA-SRSP technique majorly involves the optimal selection of routes in WSN. To accomplish this, the EMTA-SRSP technique involves the design of an oppositional Aquila optimization algorithm to choose safe routes for data communication. For the clustering process, the nodes with maximum residual energy will be considered cluster heads (CHs). In addition, the OAOA technique gets executed to choose optimal routes based on objective functions with multiple parameters such as energy, distance, and trust degree. The experimental validation of the EMTA-SRSP technique is tested, and the results exhibited a better performance of the EMTA-SRSP technique over other approaches.

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