Performance Analysis of AntHocNet Based on NS2

In this paper a simulation-based performance analysis of AntHocNet has been performed. Ant colony optimization (ACO)-based routing protocol, AntHocNet and Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol have been considered as MANET routing protocols. For the simulation purpose, NS2 (NS2.34) has been taken as simulation tools, and two attributes are taken for analysis purpose. The number of nodes (20, 40, 60, 80 and 100) and percentage of node mobility (20, 40, 60 and 80%) are used for the purpose of analysis. The analysis has been done under two protocol systems, AODV and AntHocNet to compute the comparative characteristics of both protocols. No of generated packets, throughput, average and end-to-end (e2e) delay are considered as the parameters for the purpose of comparisons and performance analysis. It is seen from the analysis that performance of AntHocNet is better than AODV in respect to all parameters which are considered for the analysis.