A Survey on applications of Genetic Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are becoming extremely attractive for both tele-communication and network industry. It is the promising technology to solve a large number of problems with its wide range of present and future applications possibilities. In this paper, we propose an efficient method based on Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to solve a sensor network optimization problem. Long communication distances between sensors and a sink (or destination) in a sensor network can greatly drain the energy of sensors and reduce the lifetime of a network. GA can be used to minimize the total communication distance, thus prolonging the network lifetime.