Comparative Analysis Of Wireless Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols Using Swarm Intelligence Based Model

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) offers wide variety of applications in different fields of life. Routing in sensor networks face various challenges due to variations in the nature of WSN applications such as their deployment, density of sensor nodes, etc., are a few to name. Since, last few years the Swarm Intelligence (SI) based models are being used to solve the analytical problems based on collective behavior like routing data packets in decentralized and self-organized systems. In our paper we have focused on SI based routing algorithm inspired from Ants to resolve data transmission problem in the wireless medium. We have simulated WAntNet routing technique to route data in sensor networks and compared it with wireless ad hoc routing protocol namely Ad-hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) using discrete simulator Network Simulator (NS) measuring different performance metrics.