Genetic Algorithm Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN): A Review

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has been remained most demanding field due to its application-specific characteristics. There are various applications for WSN and among them some well-known application parameters are energy consumption and life-span longevity for the sake of routing. Genetic Algorithm is a robust optimization technique and possesses the large-scale computational applications. This paper is an attempt to survey of all operational phases of a WSN namely, quality of service (QoS) in routing, clustering, network coverage and localization as well multiple sinks. Additionally, the paper also discusses Genetic Algorithm applications.