Research Article

Smart Spider Monkey Optimization (SSMO) for Energy-Based Cluster-Head Selection Adapted for Biomedical Engineering Applications

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Flowchart of spider monkey optimization using sampling and energy-smart clustering the smart spider monkey optimization (SSMO) protocol: (a) communication between the base station (BS) and nodes, (b) communication between cluster heads (CHs) and nodes (SSMO: sampling-based SMO and TDMA: time division multiple access).