A Light Weight Trust based Secure and Energy Efficient Clustering in Wireless Sensor Network: Honey Bee Mating Intelligence Approach☆

Abstract Acceptance of clustering network has extended the lifetime of wireless sensor networks, but it generates the operating cost of cluster head selection mechanism in network management. The honey bees mating process is a typical swarm based approach, where the search algorithm is motivated by the process of true honey bees mating. This paper is presenting a trust based secure and energy competent clustering method in wireless sensor network using Honey Bee Mating Algorithm (LWTC-BMA). Furthermore, we have also projected a pragmatic energy consumption model for exact calculation of network life span. The proposed LWTC-BMA prolong the life time of the network by depriving malicious nodes to become a cluster head. Simulation results has also outperformed the most popular LEACH and other Honey bee based clustering (TBCMA) in terms of memory requirement, total life time and communication over head.