Geographical Multi-Channel Multi-Interface Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Network

This paper proposes a new geographical ant routing protocol for mobile ad hoc network with limited number of interfaces that utilized dynamically to improve network performance. This protocol inspired by Ant colony algorithms which reacts dynamically and cognitively towards networks environments changes. Channel selection dynamically allocated as a react to link break or a channel have been used by licensed user. At the same time, this protocol uses local geographical information by the traveling ants and is combined with mapping algorithm to represent a temporary global source to destination geographical information. The limited number of interfaces is posing more challenge to multi-channel routing protocol. The proposed method tries to overcome the channel switching problem occurs due to the limited numbers of radio interfaces. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol can improve network throughput.