Energy Aware Ant Colony Optimization (ENAANT) to Enhance Throughput in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a network of mobile nodes having communication without a predefined infrastructure. The applications of MANETs are increasing from home appliances to defense communications. As the mobile nodes are operated by the batteries, all the processes which are taking place in the node should aware of the consumed energy. Maintaining the link stability is one of the challenges and it is one of the factors to ensure the high throughput in the networks. Due to the limited energy, the links of the networks often goes off which affects the throughput of MANETs. Energy aware ACO is proposed to optimize the utilization of energy that is available in the mobile nodes to increase throughput by ensuring link stability. Based on the remaining energy and the amount of packets to be sent, the nodes are selected for routing. The simulation is done through Network Simulator 2 and the results show that the proposed research work performs well in increasing the throughput.