NISR: A NATURE INSPIRED SCALABLE ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS
Sajjad Jahanbakhsh Gudakahriz, Shahram Jamali, Esmaeil Zeinali · 2011
wireless networks consisting of radio-equipped nodes that are mobile. The topology of a mobile ad hoc network changes frequently and this dynamic topology makes it difficult to design an efficient routing protocol. Number of nodes in a MANET can be varied from a few nodes to hundreds and even more nodes. Hence it is important for a MANET routing protocol to keep its performance in an acceptable level increasing number of nodes. Since nature is source of many well-established scalable mechanisms, this paper inspires from nature to design its scalable routing protocol. This protocol is based on TORA routing protocol and borrows some principles from bee and ant colonies. Simulation results signify that NISR is very competitive and outperforms TORA in terms of total delivered data, network life time and system life time.