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An Ant-Swarm Inspired Energy-Efficient Ad Hoc On-Demand Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract

As the world's economic activities are expanding, the energy comes to the fore to the question of the sustainable growth in all technological areas, including wireless mobile networking. Energy-aware routing schemes for wireless networks have spurred a great deal of recent research towards achieving this goal. Recently, an energy-aware routing protocol for MANETs was proposed by us, in which the energy load among nodes is balanced so that a minimum energy level is maintained and the resulting network lifetime is increased. In this paper, an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) inspired approach to EEAODR (so-called ACO-EEAODR) is proposed. To the best of our knowledge, no attempts have been made so far in this direction. The obtained simulation results show that the ACO-EEAODR outperforms the EEAODR scheme in terms of energy consumed and network lifetime performance metrics.

Authors

Woungang I; Dhurandher SK; Obaidat MS; Ferworn A; Shah W

Pagination

pp. 3645-3649

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publication Date

June 1, 2013

DOI

10.1109/icc.2013.6655119

Name of conference

2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
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