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Features

Gives a detailed description about behavioral characteristics of almost all swarm and other species which have attracted researchers for further study. Discusses analogy between swarms characteristics and MANETs working principles.
Details on how an ant based routing algorithm works using an example network while discussing the routing table contents at each node in the path.
Includes extensive survey of swarm intelligence based and non-swarm intelligence based routing protocols for MANETs.
Discusses the state-of-the-art QoS aware SI based routing protocols (Termite based). This includes the node structure, path establishment, path maintenance, packet structure, etc.
Gives classification of security threats for MANETs and a detailed survey of SI based secured routing protocols for MANETs.
Summary

In recent years, a lot of work has been done in an effort to incorporate Swarm Intelligence (SI) techniques in building an adaptive routing protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). Since centralized approach for routing in MANETs generally lacks in scalability and fault-tolerance, SI techniques provide a natural solution through a distributed approach for the adaptive routing for MANETs. In SI techniques, the captivating features of insects or mammals are correlated with the real world problems to find solutions. Recently, several applications of bio-inspired and nature-inspired algorithms in telecommunications and computer networks have achieved remarkable success.

The main aims/objectives of this book, ´Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Bio-Inspired Quality of Service Aware Routing Protocols´, are twofold; firstly it clearly distinguishes between principles of traditional routing protocols and SI based routing protocols, while explaining in detail the analogy between MANETs and SI principles. Secondly, it presents the readers with important Quality of Service (QoS) parameters and explains how SI based routing protocols achieves QoS demands of the applications. This book also gives quantitative and qualitative analysis of some of the SI based routing protocols for MANETs.



Table of Contents

Introduction. Swarm Intelligence Techniques. SI Solutions to Routing in MANETs. SI Solutions to QoS in MANETs. SI Solutions to Security Issues in MANETs. Conclusions and Future Directions. Appendix. References.