Item – Theses Canada

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OCLC number
56489784
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Author
Zhou, Yan,1973-
Title
Intelligent agent routing for mobile ad-hoc networks.
Degree
M.Comp. Sc. -- Dalhousie University, 2003
Publisher
Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, [2004]
Description
1 microfiche.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
This thesis introduces a new agent-based ad-hoc network routing protocol: Mobile Agent Routing protocol (MAR). Mobile agents are distributed, intelligent packets that carry data and explore the network with their intelligence. They communicate with one another to exchange the routing information. By mobile agent exploration, we put the intelligence across the network and make the routing distributed and adaptive. We compare our protocol with another state-of-the-art ad-hoc routing protocol: Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV). We perform extensive experiments to evaluate the performance of MAR. The results of the t-Test analysis show that MAR performs significantly better than DSDV within 95% confidence interval at speeds greater than 0.1 m/s.
ISBN
061279525X
9780612795259