Simulation and Performance Comparison of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) Routing Protocol with AODV, DSDV, DSR Routing Protocols of Wireless Sensor Networks using NS-2 Simulator
Anand Nayyar, Rajeshwar Singh · American Journal of Intelligent Systems · 2017
Wireless Sensor Networks, in the last few decades, have witnessed significant amount of improvement in research across various areas like Routing, Security, Localization, Deployment and above all Energy Efficiency. Nowadays, the main central point of attraction is the concept of Swarm Intelligence based techniques integration in WSN. Swarm Intelligence based Computational Swarm Intelligence Techniques have improvised WSN in terms of efficiency, performance, robustness and scalability. The main objective of this research paper is to simulate and compare the performance of various existing routing protocols like AODV, DSDV and DSR routing protocols with ACO Based Routing Protocol in terms of End to End Delay, Packet Delivery Rate, Routing Overhead, Throughput and Energy Efficiency. Simulation based results and data analysis shows that overall ACO is 150% more efficient in terms of overall performance as compared to other existing routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks.