Performance Analysis of Autonomous Location Based Energy Efficient Aco Routing Protocolwith Dissimilar Manet Mobility Models

Performance evaluations of routing protocols for wireless adhoc networks were largely done using simulation tools. Few factors need to be controlled to have useful simulation results are transmission power, power consumption, mobility model, traffic etc. since performance of an ad hoc network protocol can vary significantly with different mobility models and also under same mobility models with different parameters, we consider the mobility model of nodes, which determines the frequent link changes as one of the factor for evaluating our routing protocol for Mobile Adhoc Networks(MANETS).Therefore, the goal of this paper is to evaluate an Autonomous Location based Energy Efficient routing Protocol with ACO (ALEEP-with-ACO) for MANETS under two specific mobility models i.e Disaster area and random street model and compare the same with the benchmark Random Way Point mobility model. We use Bonn Motion Mobility scenario generation and analysis tool in ns-2.34. Simulation results showed that ALEEP-with ACO performs well in Disaster area and Random Way Point model and setback with Random street model in most of the metrics.