• Ritu Sehgal
• Vijay Nehra
• Pawan Dahiya

Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANETs) are a class of highly dynamic networks where vehicles are acting as nodes and contributing high mobility with continuously changing topology as major constrained for any routing protocol. In previous work, we have analyzed swarm based algorithms being used in VANETs to solve complex optimization problems and considered AntHocNet as the new algorithm to be implemented in VANETs. The general architecture of AntHocNet has similarities with architecture of ACO implementation used for routing. But AntHocNet has new elements apart from ACO routing such as use of both proactive and reactive components, using composite pheromone metrics and combination of bootstrapping process with ant based path sampling. Moreover, incorporating 802.11p in AntHocNet can further affect the performance of swarm based algorithms. In this paper, different element of AntHocNet is discussed with multiple challenges offered by VANETs, thereby introducing evaluation of components and effect on the performance of routing strategy of AntHocNet.

VANET, AntHocNet, Hybrid routing protocol

"Performance Analysis of Different Components of AntHocNet Routing Algorithm in VANETS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.252-255, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906M35.pdf

"Performance Analysis of Different Components of AntHocNet Routing Algorithm in VANETS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp252-255, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906M35.pdf