Reengineering MANET Routing using Ant Colony Optimization: Modelling and Performance Study

Application of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) has gained significant popularity among researchers in the field of data communication networks. However, a MANET operating in a wireless environment imposes a number of challenges for the implementers so far as routing of packets across it is concerned. There is a wide range of research contributions are available in the literature wherein authors propose various solutions to overcome the problems and bottleneck related to routing in MANET. Especially soft computing techniques and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) in particular has been significantly popular among the researchers to resolve MANET routing issues. This technique plays a vital role in route discovery in particular. In this paper, we have conducted a comprehensive review of this technique applied to routing in MANET with respect to various criteria. Hopefully this paper serves to a perfect document for researchers in this field.

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Monitoring-based validation of functional and performance aspects of a greedy ant colony optimization protocol

2015 Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium (LANOMS) ◽

10.1109/lanoms.2015.7332672 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Raul Fuentes ◽

Ana Cavalli ◽

Wissam Mallouli ◽

Javier Baliosian

Keyword(s):

Ant Colony Optimization ◽

Ant Colony ◽

And Performance

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A Novel Approach to Comparative Analysis of Legacy and Nature Inspired Ant Colony Optimization based Routing Protocol in MANET

Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University ◽

10.35741/issn.0258-2724.54.4.18 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 54 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ibrahim Ahmed Alameri

Keyword(s):

Ant Colony Optimization ◽

Routing Protocols ◽

Large Scale ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Mobile Ad Hoc Network ◽

Ant Colony ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Manet Routing ◽

Mobile Ad Hoc ◽

Hoc Networks

Performance, scalability, Quality of Service (QoS), users’ response, etc. of any network depends upon the efficient network design and communication technologies being exploited. Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) have become widespread due to their zero-configuration requirements, scalability, maintenance and adaptable nature to cater varying requirements. The core process of any network is routing which is performed by routing protocols. Routing protocols play a crucial role to enhance and improve the performance indicators of any network. Traditional MANET routing protocols have been failed to address growing demands of wireless mobile ad hoc network. In this paper we study and compare a nature inspired Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm with legacy of MANET protocols. Simulation results show that ACO algorithm has high potential to be used in large scale MANET or other wireless networks. We compared ACO with proactive and reactive routing protocols because despite of their weaknesses these types of protocols are still being used in different and same wireless arrangements.

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