Survey of Ant Colony Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Peng Zhou

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´an, China

fYear

2013

fDate

21-23 June 2013

Firstpage

1595

Lastpage

1598

Abstract

It is a challenging problem to design the self-adaption, self-organization and self-configuration routing protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET). Ant colony routing (ACR) is a family of distributed bionic routing protocols based on swarm intelligence. A detailed investigation of the state of the art of ACR protocols is presented. Principle and model of ACR are introduced firstly. According to the pheromone and heuristic information, the research progress of ACR protocols for MANET is also introduced. A few key issues in ACR protocol design are also discussed, including pheromone table, pheromone updating, routing criteria and route selection. Finally, future research directions including hybrid routing protocol, dynamic route selection and cross-layer design are prospected.

Keywords

mobile ad hoc networks; routing protocols; ACR protocols; MANET; ant colony routing protocols; cross-layer design; distributed bionic routing protocols; heuristic information; hybrid routing protocol; mobile ad hoc networks; pheromone information; pheromone table; pheromone updating; route selection; routing criteria; self-configuration routing protocols; self-organization routing protocols; swarm intelligence; Ant colony optimization; Mobile ad hoc networks; Peer-to-peer computing; Routing; Routing protocols; ant colony routing; heuristic information; mobile ad hoc network; pheromone;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational and Information Sciences (ICCIS), 2013 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shiyang

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIS.2013.418

Filename

6643336