Disclosed in the invention is an
ant colony
algorithm-based high-energy efficiency
wireless sensor
network routing method. The method comprises three parts: cluster establishment, transmission in cluster, and transmission between clusters. When a multi-hop
relay node is selected, a
heuristic ant colony intelligent
algorithm is employed to search a multi-hop transmission
route; and during the searching process, an expectation importance influence is eliminated and a probability for node selection is completely decided by the link
pheromone concentration. And when a local link
pheromone is updated, a dump
energy minimum value of a
collaboration zone node is multiplied by link
pheromone increasing degree Q and then the result is divided by transmission
energy consumption, thereby completing updating. According to the new pheromone updating method, the dump energy and the transmission
energy consumption of the node are scaled appropriately and then are introduced to the link pheromone updating; and when the dump energy of the
collaboration zone node at the next hop is increased and the transmission
energy consumption is reduced, the node can be selected. Therefore, when the routing method is used,
total energy consumption of the network can be reduced; the dump energy of the network nodes can be balanced; and the
working life of the network can be prolonged.