Models for Pheromone Evaluation in Ant Systems for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

  • Authors:
  • Fernando Correia;Teresa Vazão;Victor J. Lobo

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • EMERGING '09 Proceedings of the 2009 First International Conference on Emerging Network Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

On a mobile ad-hoc network environment, where the resources are scarce, the knowledge about the network's link state is essential to optimize the routing procedures. This paper presents a study about different pheromone evaluation models and how they react to possible changes in traffic rate. Observing how the pheromone value on a link changes, it could be possible to identify certain patterns which can indicate the path status. For this study, the behavior of the Ant System evaluation model was compared with a Temporal Active Pheromone model (a biological approach) and a Progressive Pheromone Reduction model with and without a maximum pheromone limit.