Energy-Efficient Inter-Domain Routing Protocol for MANETs
Ziane Sara, Rachida Mekki · Procedia Computer Science · 2015
In the last seven years, the focus of researchers in ad hoc networks field has shifted to inter-domain routing. Researchers used several methods to enhance the efficiency of routing between different mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). These routing methods were based on clustering techniques, virtual coordinates, Ant Colony Optimization., etc. Inter-domain routing in MANETs relies on gateways. When a packet is sent from a source to a destination, it follows a route of internal and external connected gateways in different domains and as the MANETs are mobile (both individual nodes within a domain as well as whole domains relative to each other), the topology of the whole network composed of different domains can change in an intermittent way. Therefore, gateways belonging to different MANETs must know each other to be reconnected. In this paper we introduce our inter-domain routing proposal based on bees’ communication to handle a dynamic topology in inter-Ad Hoc networks. The goal is to design an energy efficient inter-domain routing protocol for MANETs with low overhead.