NEURAL: A Self-Organizing Routing Algorithm for Ad Hoc Networks

This paper evaluates a self-organizing routing protocol for Ad Hoc network, called the NEUron Routing ALgorithm (NEURAL). NEURAL has been designed taking into account the learning and self-organizing abilities of the brain. More precisely, it was inspired by the synapses process between neurons, when a signal is propagated. Basically, the most significant characteristic of NEURAL is the uniform distribution of the information around the node’s location based on the current changes in its neighborhood. Using a 2-hop acknowledgment mechanism, local information is monitored in order to be used for route selection method, classification procedures and learning algorithms.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: WIOPT
• Authors: Vicente E. Mujica V, Dorgham Sisalem, Radu Popescu-Zeletin
• Keywords: Ad Hoc Network, NEUron Routing ALgorithm, Self-organizing Routing Protocol, WIOPT 2005