S. Swapna Kumar

Work place: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Srinivas University, Mukka, Mangalore - 576146, Karnataka, India

E-mail: drsswapnakumar@gmail.com

Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1637-0343

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Biography

K. Satyanarayana Reddy PhD in Computer Science & Engineering. Currently serves as the Vice Chancellor of Srinivas University, Mukka, Mangalore, Karnataka, India. With over 36 years of teaching experience and 3 years in the industry. Successfully supervised 7 PhD scholars in the domain of Computer Science and Engineering. Interest-based research areas include wireless sensor networks, artificial intelligence, high-speed networks, network security, cybersecurity, and data analytics. Exposure to bridges end-to-end protection, particularly against contemporary cyber threats, by bridging sensor-level security and enterprise data frameworks. Further, over 80 peer-reviewed research publications, many of which have been presented at important national and international conferences and published in well-known international journals.

Author Articles
OptiBC-WSN: Multi-Objective Optimization for Energy Efficiency, Security, and Scalability in IoT-Based Wireless Sensor Networks

By S. Swapna Kumar K. Satyanarayan Reddy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2026.04.05, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2026

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are the core of Internet of Things (IoT) applications as they enable energy-efficient and scalable real-time data acquisition. However, WSN-based IoT systems have been facing great challenges in achieving energy efficiency, security and scalability especially in applications like smart agriculture. To tackle these problems, this study proposes a new framework called OptiBC-WSN that combines Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) clustering, AES-128 encryption, Proof of Authority (PoA) blockchain and Random Forest-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS). We have implemented PSO for energy efficient clustering, PoA for trust management and a Random Forest based IDS for attack detection on Intel Berkeley and GreenOrbs datasets. OptiBC-WSN consumes 0.25 mJ/node energy, LEACH consumes 5 mJ/node and K-Means+Bee consumes 0.3 mJ/node. It also achieves a breach rate of 0.13% vs. 2% for LEACH and 0.2% for K-Means+Bee and scales to 10,000 nodes with 15,950 bytes overhead (vs. 20,000 bytes for LEACH). Its IDS has 90% accuracy to DDoS, Sybil and Jamming attacks with fairness index 0.92. We perform scale-up tests from 100 to 10K nodes with GreenOrbs dataset and synthetic topology generation, and validate core energy and security metrics with the Intel Berkeley dataset (54 nodes). In smart agriculture it cuts irrigation by 15% and CO2 emissions by 60 kg/1,000 nodes/year. Future work will explore the use of blockchain sharding and adaptive IDS to improve the scalability and security of IoT.

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