A Stable Ant-based Routing Protocol for Flying Ad Hoc Networks
Xueli Zheng, Qian Qi, Qingwen Wang, Yongqiang Li · 2018
A Stable Ant-based Routing Protocol (SARP) for Flying Ad Hoc Networks is proposed in this paper.SARP is based on the Ant Colony Optimization meta-heuristic, which selects the next hop node according the stable value, pheromone and the energy of the link.The stable value is calculated by the transmission range of the node and the distance between the current node and the next hop nodes.SARP let the nodes broadcast HELLO messages periodically to obtain the neighbor information.We describe SARP, implement it and evaluate its performance using NS-2 network simulator.Simulation results reveal that SARP achieves better performance in terms of the packet delivery fraction, throughput and normalized routing load, which is respectively compared with AODV.