Energy Efficient Protocol for MANET using Ant Colony Optimization Technique with Distance awareness system

The field of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) has gained an important part of the interest of researchers and become very popular in past few years. MANETs can be used to set up a temporary mean of communication by having nodes behave as hosts and routers, with packets hopping between nodes to reach the destination node. This makes MANET suitable for rapid deployment, but because of the dynamic changes in network configurations, quickly finding the optimum route is difficult. In this study, the authors propose a biology-inspired ant routing protocol based on ant colony optimisation called as optimised antnet global positioning system, which is based on GPS and mobile software agents modelled on ants for routing in ad-hoc networks. The authors compare the performance of the authors protocol with Antnet, ad-hoc on-demand distance vector, Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) and Ad-hoc On Demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) protocols with respect to end-to-end delay, average throughput, packet delivery ratio and route cost.

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"A New Approach For Routing In Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Based On Ant Colony Optimization With GPS", IET Networks, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 171-180, Sept. 2012

online: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=6584863

Performance comparison of routing protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks consist of small nodes with sensing, computation, and wireless communications capabilities. Many routing,power management, and data dissemination protocols have been specially designed for WSNs where energy awareness is an essential design issue. Routing protocols in WSNs might differ depending on the application and network architecture. In this presentation we present a survey of state of-the-art routing techniques in WSNs. We outline the design challenges for routing protocols in WSNs followed by a comprehensive survey of routing techniques. Overall, the routing techniques are classied into three categories based on the underlying network structure: flat, hierarchical, and location-based routing. Furthermore, these protocols can be classied into multipath-based, query-based,negotiation-based, QoS-based, and coherent-based depending on the protocol operation.To prolong the lifetime of the sensor nodes, designing e cient routing protocols is critical. Even though sensor networks are primarily designed for monitoring and reporting events, since they are application dependent, a single routing protocol cannot be effcient for sensor networks across all applications.

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