[ACM Press the 2011 International Conference - Rourkela, Odisha, India (2011.02.12-2011.02.14)] Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Communication, Computing & Security - ICCCS '11 - Optimized ant based routing protocol for MANET

✍ Scribed by Rout, Ashima; Sethi, Srinivas; Mishra, Debajyoti

• Book ID: 127369554
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 313 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1450304648
• DOI: 10.1145/1947940.1947946

✦ Synopsis

The basic routing problem in MANET deals with methods to transport a packet across a network from source node to destination node. In this paper, we introduce a new ant based routing protocol to optimize the route discovery and maximize the efficiency of routing in terms of packet delivery ratio (PDR) using the blocking expanding ring search (Blocking-ERS), third party route reply, local route repair and n-hop local ring techniques. These techniques control the overhead and minimize the end-toend delay with improvement of PDR. The Optimized-Ant routing protocol is based on ad hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) and inspired by the ant-colony optimization (ACO) used to solve complex optimization problems and utilizes a collection of mobile agents as "ants" to perform optimal routing activities. Exhaustive simulations are carried out and it is observed that, Optimized-Ant performs better than AODV.