An adaptive, fault protected improvisation of ACO based MANET routing

Abstract

In this study we introduce a bit-stuffed Universal addressing scheme which provides compatibility between nodes in a Manet with different addressing schemes without having to make any structural changes to packet formats.We also introduce a breadth first search inspired mechanism to choose a particular path based on forwarding load of the constituent path nodes which in turn reduces the problem of Network Partitioning prevalent in MANETs. We have backed our proposals with suitable experimental justifications. © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016.