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The three most important issues among these are energy efficiency, quality of service and security management. To get the best possible results in one or more of these issues in wireless sensor networks optimization is necessary. Furthermore, in number of applications (e.g., body area sensor networks, vehicular ad hoc networks) these issues might conflict and require a trade-off amongst them. Due to the high energy consumption and data processing requirements, the use of classical algorithms has historically been disregarded. In this context contemporary researchers started using  bio-mimetic strategy-based optimization techniques in the field of wireless sensor networks. These techniques are diverse and involve many different optimization algorithms. As far as we know, most existing works tend to focus only on optimization of one specific issue of the three mentioned above. It is high time that these individual efforts are put into perspective and a more holistic view is taken. In this paper we take a step in that direction by presenting a survey of the literature in the area of wireless sensor network optimization concentrating especially on the three most widely used bio-mimetic algorithms, namely, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization and genetic algorithm. In addition, to stimulate new research and development interests in this field, open research issues, challenges and future research directions are highlighted.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s140100299","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,12,24]],"date-time":"2013-12-24T09:06:57Z","timestamp":1387876017000},"page":"299-345","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":90,"title":["Bio-Mimic Optimization Strategies in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Md.","family":"Adnan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia"}]},{"given":"Mohammd","family":"Razzaque","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia"}]},{"given":"Ishtiaque","family":"Ahmed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia"}]},{"given":"Ismail","family":"Isnin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,12,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"393","DOI":"10.1016\/S1389-1286(01)00302-4","article-title":"Wireless sensor networks: A survey","volume":"38","author":"Akyildiz","year":"2002","journal-title":"Comput. 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