| ACO | Ant Colony Optimization |
| BBO | Bio-geography-Based Optimization |
| BCHT | Boundary Constraint Handling Technique |
| CV | Constraint Violation |
| DE | Differential Evolution |
| IMO-CADE | Improved Multioperator-based Constrained Adaptive DE |
| OPA | Optimal Power Allocation |
| PSO | Particle Swarm Optimization |
| WSNs | Wireless Sensor Networks |