Performance improvement of MANET under

DSR protocol using swarm optimization

Varshney, T. ; Dept. of Inf. Technol., ABES Eng. Coll., Ghaziabad, India ; Katiyar, A. ;
Sharma, P.

Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) is an autonomous, infrastructure-less, self-configuring and

self-healing system of mobile nodes connected by wireless links. The nodes are free to move
about randomly and may join or leave the network at their will. Due to the mobile nature of the
nodes and the unreliable nature of some nodes in a MANET, a critical issue of consistent
performance of such a network arises. Here, the concept of routing comes into the picture.
Routing refers to the discovery of a reliable-optimal path for data communication between the
nodes in a network. The objective of this paper is at describing an optimized method to establish
an optimal path between a pair of nodes and detect the misbehaving (selfish, incapable) nodes in
MANET. This improves the performance of a routing protocol because in majority of the poor
performing networks, the misbehaving nodes are the major cause. To find an optimal path
between a set of nodes, DSR protocol has been deployed (using the NS2 simulator) followed by
the application of Genetic Algorithm in detecting the selfish nodes. Since the misbehaving
node(s) are successfully detected, it proves that the proposed approach is optimal and efficiently
improves the performance of DSR protocol significantly. But, sometimes the routes found out by
GA are not the ultimate best routes hence to doubly ensure the maximum optimality in the routes
found out, ACO (Ant Colony Optimization) has been used.
Published in:
Issues and Challenges in Intelligent Computing Techniques (ICICT), 2014
International Conference on
Date of Conference:
7-8 Feb. 2014
Page(s):
58 - 63
INSPEC Accession Number:
14210971
Conference Location :
Ghaziabad