Ant-based Energy-aware Disjoint Multipath Routing Algorithm for MANETs

Ant-based routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have been widely explored, but most of them are essentially single-path routing methods that tend to impose a heavy burden on the hosts along the shortest path from source to destination. In this paper, we combine swarm intelligence and...

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Published inComputer journal Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 166 - 176
Main Authors Wu, Zheng-Yu, Song, Han-Tao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Oxford University Press 01.02.2010
Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
Subjects
Algorithms
Computer simulation
Internet Protocol
Mobile communications networks
Routing
Wireless networks
routing
ant-based algorithm
MANETs
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Summary:Ant-based routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have been widely explored, but most of them are essentially single-path routing methods that tend to impose a heavy burden on the hosts along the shortest path from source to destination. In this paper, we combine swarm intelligence and node-disjoint multipath routing to alleviate these problems. A novel approach called ant-based energy-aware disjoint multipath routing algorithm (AEADMRA) is proposed. AEADMRA is based on swarm intelligence and especially on the ant colony-based meta heuristic. AEADMRA can discover multiple energy-aware node-disjoint routing paths with a low routing overhead. Simulation results indicate that the performance of AEADMRA outperforms other pertinent algorithms.
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ISSN:0010-4620
1460-2067
DOI:10.1093/comjnl/bxn007