S-RARE; a Simplified Receiver Assisted Routing Protocol for Ad-Hoc Networks

Abstract

A simplified receiver assisted routing enhancement (S-RARE) protocol is proposed. The S-RARE technique is a generic add-on middleware to MANET routing algorithms. A simplified mathematical model is presented using the probabilistic technique. In this paper, we used the principle of the biologically inspired ant routing technique as example to implement the S- RARE algorithm. The similarities and differences between S-RARE and the traditional ant technique have been highlighted. The S-RARE quickly finds a path between the source and destination with low overhead. S-RARE technique performs better in highly dynamic network topology. The performance of the proposed S-RARE is simulated and compared to the traditional ant in radio network model (random graph model). The simulation results show the significant improvement when S-RARE technique is set up as add-on module on top of traditional ant work.