Secured and energy efficient cluster based routing in WSN via hybrid optimization model, TICOA

There are two main design issues in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) routing including energy optimization and security provision. Due to the energy limitations of wireless sensor devices, the problem of high usage of energy must be properly addressed to enhance the network efficiency. Several research works have been addressed to solve the routing issue in WSN with security concerns and network life time enhancement. However, the network overhead and routing traffic are some of the obstacles still not tackled by the existing models. Hence, to enhance the routing performance, a new cluster-based routing model is introduced in this work that includes two phases like Cluster Head (CH) selection and Routing. In the first phase, the hybrid optimization model, Tasmanian Integrated Coot Optimization Algorithm (TICOA) is proposed for selecting the optimal CH under the consideration of constraints like security, Energy, Trust, Delay and Distance. Subsequently, the routing process takes place under the constraints of Trust and Link Quality that ensures the enhancement of the network lifetime of WSN. Finally, simulation results show the performance of the proposed work on cluster-based routing in terms of different performance measures. The conventional systems received lower trust ratings, specifically BOA=0.489, BSA=0.475, GA=0.493, TDO=0.418, COOT=0.439, TSGWO=0.427, and P-WWO=0.408, whereas the trust value of the TICOA technique is 0.683.