Locant: A nature inspired location service for ad hoc networks

Hansdah, RC and Khanna, Prashant (2006) Locant: A nature inspired location service for ad hoc networks. In: 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking,, Dec 27-30, 2006, Guwahati, India, pp. 239-244.

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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.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Series.:	LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Publisher:	Springer
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Springer.
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	27 Aug 2010 06:58
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 06:12
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/30509

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