Locant: a nature inspired location service for ad hoc networks

Authors:
R. C. Hansdah;Prashant Khanna
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Venue:
ICDCN'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
Year:
2006

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Abstract

An efficient location service is a prerequisite to any robust, effective and precise location information aided Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) routing protocol. Locant, presented in this paper is a nature inspired location service which derives inspiration from the insect colony framework, and it is designed to work with a host of location information aided MANET routing protocols. Using an extensive set of simulation experiments, we have compared the performance of Locant with RLS, SLS and DLS, and found that it has comparable or better performance compared to the above three location services on most metrics and has the least overhead in terms of number of bytes transmitted per location query answered.