Abstract—In this paper, an enhancement of the existing DYMO protocol has been proposed by applying ACO technique. Ant agents have been applied instead of TCP agents while generating traffic. The proposed routing protocol has been implemented using ant based routing. Network simulator ns2 version 2.34 has been used to simulate, verify and validate the results. The proposed protocol combines route maintenance feature of DYMO and shortest best path feature of ant routing technique. Shortest routes to the destination have been computed using pheromone trail values generated by ant agents and stored in pheromone routing tables. Node connectivity has been increased by using ant agents with DYMO mechanism.

Index Terms—MANETs, DYMO, ACO, E-DYMO

Cite: Anuj K. Gupta, Harsh Sadawarti, and Anil K. Verma, "Performance Enhancement of DYMO Routing Protocol with Ant Colony Optimization," International Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 188-194, September 2014. doi: 10.12720/ijeee.2.3.188-194