Research Article
A Survey of Location Aware Ant Colony Optimization Routing Protocols in MANETs
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.22-3-2017.152415, author={Hang Zhang and Xi Wang and Dieter Hogrefe}, title={A Survey of Location Aware Ant Colony Optimization Routing Protocols in MANETs}, proceedings={10th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={BICT}, year={2017}, month={3}, keywords={aco; aco based routing; swarm intelligence; manets}, doi={10.4108/eai.22-3-2017.152415} }- Hang Zhang
Xi Wang
Dieter Hogrefe
Year: 2017
A Survey of Location Aware Ant Colony Optimization Routing Protocols in MANETs
BICT
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.22-3-2017.152415
Abstract
Mobile Ad hoc NETtworks (MANETs) are infrastructureless and self-configuring networks which consist of wireless mobile devices. Due to these properties, routing in such networks is a challenging task. Developing highly efficient routing protocols for MANETs is an important issue, with solutions having to fulfill many requirements, such as being able to provide low packet delay, high packet delivery rate and effective adaption to network topology changes with low control overhead. Swarm intelligence inspired algorithms offer possible solutions that fulfill the requirements and so have attracted a lot of attention from academics. A successful example in the swarm intelligence category is the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm which has been applied to balance the various routing related requirements in MANETs. This paper presents a survey which focuses on location aware ACO routing protocols in MANETs. The main contributions of this survey include 1) introducing the ACO routing principles, 2) surveying and comparing a selection of routing protocols from the perspective of design and simulation parameters, and 3) discussing open issues and future possible design directions of ACO based routing protocols.