Ant-based Energy-aware Disjoint Multipath Routing Algorithm for MANETs

摘要

Ant-based routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have been widely explored, but most of them are essentially single-path routing methods that tend to impose a heavy burden on the hosts along the shortest path from source to destination. In this paper, we combine swarm intelligence and node-disjoint multipath routing to alleviate these problems. A novel approach called ant-based energy-aware disjoint multipath routing algorithm (AEADMRA) is proposed. AEADMRA is based on swarm intelligence and especially on the ant colony-based meta heuristic. AEADMRA can discover multiple energy-aware node-disjoint routing paths with a low routing overhead. Simulation results indicate that the performance of AEADMRA outperforms other pertinent algorithms.