Evaluating the Performance of ANTMANET Protocol for MANET

Mabrouka Abuhmida, Kapilan Radhakrishnan, Ian Wells

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Abstract

Location based protocols use the information of node's position to route the data. Routing the data in this case does not mean choosing the shortest path. It means choosing the available path based on the location information, this is one of the reasons that these protocols may fail the routing task in mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) where the mobility of the nodes and the dynamic topology makes the routing task more difficult. Alternatively, the ANT colony optimization (ACO) based protocols will successfully find the shortest path to any desired destination in a MANET. To achieve reliable routing in MANET, these protocols extensively uses the control packets, consequently this will this will increase the network overhead. In this paper we present performance evaluation of ANTMANET, which is a novel MANET routing protocol based on the ACO algorithm. It utilizes the location information to minimize the search areas, which have great impact on improving the network overhead. It is observed that our bio-inspired protocol has outperformed AODV and LANMAR on different evaluation criteria such as delay, network overhead, while using the random-waypoint max-speed mobility model.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA)
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Sixth International Conference (ITA 15)
EditorsRich Picking, Stuart Cunningham, Nigel Houlden, Denise Oram, Vic Grout, Julie Mayers
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages109-114
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4673-9557-1
ISBN (Print)978-1-4799-8036-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Nov 2015
Event2015 Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA) - Glyndŵr University, Wrexham, United Kingdom
Duration: 8 Nov 201511 Nov 2015

Conference

Conference2015 Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA)
Abbreviated titleITA2015
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityWrexham
Period8/11/1511/11/15

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