Measuring network performance of swarm power aware routing protocol for MANETs

Author

Nagy, Ahmed S. ; El-Kadi, Amr A. ; Mikhail, Mikhail N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of CSCE, American Univ. in Cairo, Cairo

fYear

2008

fDate

6-9 July 2008

Firstpage

1062

Lastpage

1069

Abstract

The huge growth in wireless communication and increase in user mobility have introduced new challenges, such as the need to make efficient use of power resources besides preserving good network characteristics. Power resources as well as processing power are constrained in an ad hoc network. Overlooking the limitation of resources in an Ad hoc network might result in a sharp degradation in the network services. The objective of our work is to observe the effect of incorporating power awareness and load balancing techniques on network performance parameters: throughput, packet delivery ratio and routing overhead. The protocol developed is a swarm-based routing protocol that incorporated both power awareness and load balancing techniques. PowerAnt provided more throughput by 11% on average; besides, it provided better packet delivery ratio by 15% compared with AODV.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile communication; power aware computing; resource allocation; routing protocols; wireless sensor networks; AODV; MANET; PowerAnt; ad hoc network; load balancing techniques; network performance parameters; network services; packet delivery ratio; power awareness; processing power; routing overhead; sharp degradation; swarm power aware routing protocol; swarm-based routing protocol; wireless communication; Ad hoc networks; Computer networks; Degradation; Delay; Load management; Mobile ad hoc networks; Particle swarm optimization; Power measurement; Routing protocols; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 2008. ISCC 2008. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2702-4

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1346

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625743

Filename

4625743