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Locant: A Nature Inspired Location Service for Ad Hoc Networks

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Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2006)

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An efficient location service is a prerequisite to any robust, effective and precise location information aided Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) routing protocol. Locant, presented in this paper is a nature inspired location service which derives inspiration from the insect colony framework, and it is designed to work with a host of location information aided MANET routing protocols. Using an extensive set of simulation experiments, we have compared the performance of Locant with RLS, SLS and DLS, and found that it has comparable or better performance compared to the above three location services on most metrics and has the least overhead in terms of number of bytes transmitted per location query answered.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India

    R. C. Hansdah & Prashant Khanna

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, 230 Atanasoff Hall, 50011, Ames, IA, USA

    Soma Chaudhuri

  2. Computer Science Department SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, 11794-4400, NY, USA

    Samir R. Das

  3. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 781039, Guwahati, India

    Himadri S. Paul

  4. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, 50010, Ames, IA, USA

    Srikanta Tirthapura

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Hansdah, R.C., Khanna, P. (2006). Locant: A Nature Inspired Location Service for Ad Hoc Networks. In: Chaudhuri, S., Das, S.R., Paul, H.S., Tirthapura, S. (eds) Distributed Computing and Networking. ICDCN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4308. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11947950_26

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