Petal Region Analysis of Improved Petal Ant Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

A Mobile Ad-hoc Network is an infrastructure-less based wireless network that allows users to communicate, exchange and share information with others in an easy and efficient manner. A Mobile Ad hoc Network is the most popular and important type of wireless network that is currently being utilized in the mobile communication systems. Furthermore, routing protocols play an important role in the operation of this type of wireless network. In MANETs, routing protocols are used to establish multiple hop data paths between end nodes. Routing protocols are primarily designed to transmit data packets even when links change. In spite of the limited resources such as bandwidth, memory, transmission range and battery power, the design of routing protocols is considered to be one of the most interesting areas of research and a challenging task. There have been a number of routing solutions proposed in the past aiming to meet some of these QOS requirements. However, it is difficult to support all of them at the same time. Therefore, MANET routing protocols have become one of the key research directions in the last couple of decades. In this research article, we examine and investigate the effects of various parameters with respect to petal widths for the I-PAR algorithm from small to large, in order to determine the most efficient petal for the data transmission process. NS2.35 simulation was used to analyse various petal widths and determine the optimal petal region to increase performance of I-PAR. A comparison of the proposed I-PAR algorithm is shown against various petal width sizes, indicating the efficiency and inefficiency of the wrong selection of petal boundary regions. Finally, Improved Petal Ant Routing is compared with Petal Ant Routing.