Abstract:
A primary callenge of MANET is to design an effective routing algorithm
than can adapt its behaviour to frequent and rapid changes nature of the network
topology to have a shortest path between sources and destinations with low
overhead and delay. Ant routing concept is a new scheme for routing inspired by
the behavior of real ants. Real ants are able to find the shortest path to a food
source by following the trail of a chemical substance called pheromone deposited
by other ants. This thesis presents a novel scheme for MANET routing protocol
called Intelligent Ant sense for mobile ad hoc routing protocol (INTANTSENSE).
It utilizes a behavoiur studies of “ants” in nature known as ant colony optimization
to perform optimal routing activities. By combining the capability of reactive
routing with distributed and multipath routing mechanism also uses the ring search
model, Intelligent Ant Sense protocol displays a satisfactory performances; optimal
path routing, fast route discovery and effective routing failure handling.
This thesis study the intelligent ant sense protocol across a personal area
network with IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN. The intelligent ant sense protocol written and
compiled to network simulator NS-2 to have the performance and compared with
AODV protocol. Then, a performance comparison has been done under conditions
of speed , mobility and number of nodes . Results show that the intelligent ant
sense protocol ensure lower overhead and delay than AODV protocol with high
packet delivered ratio but give low throughput and slightly high data loss.
