Firefly Based Optimized Routing Over MANETs

Abstract

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETS) are the infrastructure less network that are very dynamic in nature. The main problem with such network is mobility of the nodes; the nodes are free to roam arbitrarily, thus the topology changes time to time, and route acquisition in such a network is always a tedious task. When it comes to MANETs, the complexity increases due to various characteristics like dynamic topology, limited resources and energy etc. In this dissertation, we have proposed an algorithm based on firefly. The algorithm captures the nature of fireflies i.e. how they do the task individually and how they coordinate with each other to create a system. The proposed algorithm is compared with the state-of-the art routing algorithm and it improves MANETs routing performance in terms of packet delivery ratio, packet loss, throughput and end-to-end delay.