Parallel approach of a bioinspired routing protocol for MANETs Online publication date: Sat, 02-Mar-2013
by Luis Javier García Villalba; Delfín Rupérez Cañas; Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Vol. 12, No. 3, 2013
Abstract: Designing routing protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) is a complex task because of its dynamic topology. A kind of routing protocols that suits the particularity of MANETs is so-called bio-inspired. Among these, focused on Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO), which studies the behaviour of ants in their search for food, are especially relevant. One of these algorithms is AntOR, which relying on swarm intelligence, efficiently solves routing in MANETs. In this paper we show a parallelised version of AntOR, the so-called P-AntOR, that using programming multiprocessor architectures based on shared memory protocol, allows to run tasks in parallel using threads, being applicable this parallelisation in the route discovery phase, route local repair process and link failure notification. The simulation results indicate that P-AntOR performs better than its predecessor, with emphasis on the metric of average End-To-End delay, jitter and packet delivery ratio.
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