Ant Colony Optimization for Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in Urban Environments

Ant Colony Optimization for Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in Urban Environments

Gianni A. Di Caro, Frederick Ducatelle, and Luca M. Gambardella

Technical Report No. IDSIA-05-08
May 2008

IDSIA / USI-SUPSI Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Galleria 2, 6928 Manno, Switzerland

This report represents the draft English version of the book chapter (in French) Optimisation par colonie de fourmis pour le routage dans les rseaux mobiles ad hoc en environnement urbain, that will appear in the book: Nicolas Monmarch´, Fr´d´ric e e e Guinand, and Patrick Siarry, Eds., Fourmis artificielles, des bases algorithmiques aux concepts et ralisations avancs, Herm`s e Science Publications, 2008. IDSIA is a joint institute of both University of Lugano (USI) and University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), and was founded in 1988 by the “Dalle Molle” Foundation which promoted quality of life.

Contents
1 Introduction 2 Routing in mobile ad hoc networks 3 Ant Colony Optimization for routing: general principles 4 The 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 AntHocNet routing algorithm Pheromone tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reactive route setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Proactive route maintenance and improvement Data forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dealing with link failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 12 13 14 14 15 16 17 18 18 20

5 Working in an urban environment 5.1 The urban environment and node mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 Radio propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3 Data traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4 Related work on the simulation of MANETs in urban environments 6 Experimental evaluation 6.1 Technical details about the simulation setup 6.2 General network properties . . . . . . . . . 6.3 Data send rate . . . . . . . . .

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