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@article{143627,
        author = {Chitra Sharma and DR. A C SUTHAR and Prof. Yakuta Karkhanawala},
        title = {Energy constrained routing in MANET using ACO},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {},
        volume = {2},
        number = {12},
        pages = {208-213},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=143627},
        abstract = {In mobile ad hoc networks (i.e. MANETs), nodes are mobile & have limited energy supply that can quickly deplete due to multi-hop routing activities, which may gradually lead to an un-operational network. In the past decade, the hunt for a reliable and energy-efficient MANETs routing protocol has been extensively researched. This paper proposes a novel Ant Colony Optimization based routing scheme for MANETs, and an its enhanced energy-constrained version, for which the routing decisions are facilitated based on the nodes’ residual energy. These protocols were evaluated through simulations using NS2, showing that ACO+AODV outperforms E-AODV, in terms of network residual energy, number of drop packets, number of received packets and end to end delay in the network, where E-AODV is an energy-aware version of AODV.},
        keywords = {Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), multi-path routing, Ad Hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO).},
        month = {},
        }