A mobile ad-hoc network multi-path routing protocol based on biological attractor selection for disaster recovery communication

Hyukjoon Lee, Donghoon Jeon
2015 ICT Express  
The performance of traditional routing protocols for mesh networks can decrease significantly in disaster recovery situations due to dynamic changes to the network environment. A number of multi-path routing protocols have been proposed to address such issues. MMQR is a multipath routing protocol for OFDM-TDMA mesh networks which use multiple paths that can be replaced immediately by one another in case of link failures. In this paper we extend the MMQR such that the alternative paths are
more » ... red adaptively as the communication environment changes based on the heuristic model of attractor selection mechanism by which biological entities are known to adapt to dynamically changing environment. Simulation results show that the multi-path routing protocol with attractor selection mechanism outperforms existing multi-path routing protocols in terms of packet delivery ratio, throughput and QoS.
doi:10.1016/j.icte.2015.10.001 fatcat:zuj6jw3ckrdenlcf3njzmwzlna