Quantum-inspired hybrid optimization framework for energy-efficient clustering and routing in wireless sensor networks (opens in new tab)

This paper proposes QIHOR-WSN, a Quantum-Inspired Hybrid Optimization Framework that jointly optimizes clustering and routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to address the dual challenge of energy depletion and network lifetime in large-scale, heterogeneous deployments. In resource-constrained WSNs with unevenly distributed nodes and limited battery capacity, existing methods treat clustering and routing as separate problems, yielding suboptimal global performance and insufficient adaptab...