Abstract:
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As the world tends to increase the use of the Mobile Ad hoc
wireless Networks (MANETs), a very important challenging issue
is to enhance the performance of the used routing protocols.
Each of the routing protocols used has some drawbacks on the
network performance. However, enhancements to these protocols
are needed to increase the network performance; hence a lot
of research is done.
The use of the mobile agent is one of the promising approaches
for enhancing the performance of the routing protocols.
When its used in the MANETs along with a traditional
protocol, or if it is used in proposing a totally new routing protocol
approach, it results in a good enhancement of the network
performance most of the time.
This thesis proposes a new routing protocol to be used in
MANETs based on the ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm,
by taking the quality of service (QOS) parameters in
the network into consideration, which are the bandwidth, delay,
battery level and the number of hops. The new protocol,
which is called QOS based ant colony optimization routing protocol
(QOS-Based-ACO), outperforms the ad hoc on demand
distance vector routing protocol (AODV) and the ant based hybrid
routing algorithm (AntHocNet) when considering the network
throughput and average end to end delay.
Description:
CD, no of pages 91, informatics 4/2015 , 30122
