P System Framework for Ant Colony Algorithm in IoT Data Routing

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a critical part of current information technology. When designing IoT data routes, device limited resources such as the computation speed, available amount of memory, remaining battery power or channel bandwidth, to name a few, must be considered. Since the Ant Colony System (ACS) is successfully applied to solving different routing problems, the implementation of ACS for routing in the IoT has also been considered. A P system inspired by the nature of membrane processes not only simplifies a complex system behavior annotation but also delivers a good balance between performance, flexibility and scalability. For this reason, the P system framework for ACS in IoT data routing has been investigated. From the research conducted, MMAPS, which is a combination of the P system and the Max-Min Ant System, is seen to perform better than the ACS.