Improvements on Ant Routing for Sensor Networks
Ying Zhang, Lukas D. Kuhn, and Markus P.J. Fromherz
Abstract
Ad-hoc wireless sensor networks have been an active research topic for
the last several years. Sensor networks are distinguished from
traditional networks by characteristics such as deeply embedded
routers, highly dynamic networks, resource-constrained nodes, and
unreliable and asymmetric links. Ant routing has shown good
performance for communication networks; in this paper, we show why the
existing ant-routing algorithms do not work well for sensor networks.
Three new ant-routing algorithms are proposed and performance
evaluations for these algorithms on a real application are conducted
on a routing simulator for sensor networks.
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