A Niche Quantum Ant Colony Multifaceted Routing Algorithm for WSN-based IoT Networks in the Emerging Quantum Industry

Abstract

Quantum computing (QC) is an important area of technological study. The ever-growing network size and complexity in quantum computation research are the cause of evolutionary dynamics in QC. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm shift in thinking; it advances many forms of communication that rely on WSNs to gather data, and it has the potential to be even more effective with the help of quantum computing. Network congestion results in lost packets, delayed transmissions, and wasted effort during recovery. In an attempt to improve the efficiency and velocity of the route, the proposed method considers a number of objectives. Since quantum computers leverage the characteristics of quantum states to do certain computations at orders of magnitude quicker than classical computers, this is an exciting new direction to investigate. This study introduced the Niche Quantum Ant Colony Multifaceted Routing Algorithm (NQAC-MRA), a method for optimizing wireless distributed networks in IoT routes that combines quantum computation, an optimization function for several objectives, and monitoring. Producing cost-effective routing that is congestion-aware for alarm message transmission over WSN-IoT and for alert message transmission utilizing IoT devices to their respective destinations with the lowest latency is the primary goal of this study. To be more specific, the quantum bits stand in for the node pheromone, and turning quantum gates modifies the search path's pheromone. Nodes' power consumption, communication delay, and degree of network load-balancing serve as fitness metrics to find the best communication path. According to the results of the performance analysis, the suggested scheme is both lightweight and more effective than the alternatives. The performance research showed that the proposed approach outperformed the alternatives while being significantly lighter. The suggested NQAC-MRA beat its competitors in terms of total simulation results thanks to its reduced energy usage and enhanced performance.