A Survey on WSN Issues with its Heuristics and Meta-Heuristics Solutions

A wireless sensor networks (WSN’s) has stimulated significant research work among the researchers in monitoring and tracking tasks. It’s a quite challenging task that needs to cope up with various conflicting issues such as energy efficiency, network lifetime, connectivity, coverage, etc. in WSN’s for designing various applications. This paper explores the recent work and efforts done in addressing the various issues in WSN’s. This paper focused on basic concepts regarding the WSN’s and discusses meta-heuristics and heuristics algorithms for solving these issues with recent investigations. Various optimization algorithms in the context of WSN, routing algorithms, and clustering algorithms were discussed with details of earlier work done. This paper delivers various Multi-Objective Optimization approaches deeply for solving issues and summarizes the recent research work and studies. It provides researchers an understanding of the various issues, trade-offs between them, and meta-heuristics and heuristics approach for solving these issues. A glimpse of open research challenges has also been provided which will be helpful for researchers. This paper also gives an insight into various issues, open challenges that still exist in WSN’s with their heuristics and meta-heuristics solutions and also focuses on various conflicting issues as well.