Cognitive and Self-Healing Routing for Sensor Networks

New approaches to Quality-of-Service (QoS) Routing in wireless sensor networks which use different forms of learning are the subject of this paper. The Cognitive Packet Network (CPN) algorithm uses smart packets for path discovery, together with reinforcement learning and neural networks, while Self-Healing Routing (SHR) is based on an ant colony paradigm which emulates the pheromone based technique which biological ants use to mark paths and communicate information about paths between different insects of the same colony.