ACO-based biology inspired routing protocol for ad hoc networks Online publication date: Fri, 06-Nov-2015
by Deepak Chatrabhuj Karia; Vaibhav Godbole
International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (IJSI), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2015
Abstract: The task of routing packets is hard in ad hoc networks because there is no central control over the network elements. In any network, the data packets have to be routed to the destination with minimum data loss, minimum delay and maximum packet delivery ratio. Therefore, there must be an efficient algorithm which satisfies all these qualities of service requirements. In this paper, we propose a biology-inspired ant routing protocol based on ant colony optimisation (ACO) called as optimised AntNet with location awareness functionality (OANTLOC). In this technique, the distance between the current node and neighbouring node is calculated using the range difference technique to transmit the packets, hence overcomes the drawbacks of AntNet algorithm which considers only cumulative probability for packet transmission. Our proposed algorithm also outperforms primitives reactive routing protocols in terms of the average end to end delay, average throughput, packet delivery ratio and route cost.
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