A Novel Algorithm for Manets using Ant Colony
Mobile Ad-hoc Networks have recently attracted a lot of attention in the research community as well as the industry. Quality of Service support for MANETs is an exigent task due to dynamic topology and limited resource. Routing, the act of moving information across network from a source to a destination. Conventional routing algorithms are difficult to be applied to a dynamic network topology, therefore modeling and design an efficient routing protocol in such dynamic networks is an important issue. It is important that MANETs should provide QoS support routing, such as acceptable delay, jitter and energy in the case of multimedia and real time applications. One of the meta-heuristic algorithms which are inspired by the behavior of real ants is called Ant Colony Optimization algorithm. In this paper we propose a new on demand QoS routing algorithm "Ant Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" based on ant colony. The proposed algorithm will be highly adaptive, efficient and scalable and mainly reduces end-to-end delay in high mobility cases.
Keywords: MANET, Quality of Service (QoS), Ant Colony, Routing Protocol
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Javad Pashaei Barbin
Javad Pashaei Barbin received B.E. degree from Shabestar Azad University in 2006. He received M.S. degree from Shabestar Azad University in 2010. His research interests include network management as well as WiMAX and ad hoc networks.
Majid Taghipoor
Majid Taghipoor teaches in university of applied science technology. His research interests include network management as well as WiMAX, ad hoc, Manet networks and NOC.
Vahid Hosseini
Vahid Hosseini received M.S. degree from Shabestar Azad University in 2010.
Javad Pashaei Barbin
Javad Pashaei Barbin received B.E. degree from Shabestar Azad University in 2006. He received M.S. degree from Shabestar Azad University in 2010. His research interests include network management as well as WiMAX and ad hoc networks.
Majid Taghipoor
Majid Taghipoor teaches in university of applied science technology. His research interests include network management as well as WiMAX, ad hoc, Manet networks and NOC.
Vahid Hosseini
Vahid Hosseini received M.S. degree from Shabestar Azad University in 2010.
