MUMBAI, India, June 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641069305 A) filed by Sasi Institute Of Technology And Engineering; M V S S Nagendranath; Venkata Sandeep Edara; and V Ajay Kumar on June 02, 2026, for Improved Ant Colony Tumbling Routing With Type-Ii Fuzzy Clustering For Dynamic Manet Environments Applicants.
Inventors include Sasi Institute Of Technology And Engineering; M V S S Nagendranath; Venkata Sandeep Edara; and V Ajay Kumar.
The application for the patent was published on June 12, 2026, under issue no. 24/2026.
Abstract: The nodes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are dynamically changing topologies, are mobile, have limited battery power and often fail to find routes. This presents MANETs with many problems of reliable, energy-efficient communication. In the conventional routing and clustering approaches, the clustering overhead is high, the cluster head selection is unstable, and the route discovery is ineffective, resulting in suboptimal network performance. In this context, the following issues are to be resolved: First, how to secure and save energy in data transmission in MANETs; Second, how to address issues of secure data transmission and energy consumption in MANETs. To address these issues, this work presents a Type-II Fuzzy Clustering with Ant Colony Tumbling-Based Routing (T2FCATR) framework for secure and energy-efficient data transmission in MANETs. The proposed approach uses a type-II fuzzy logic system to select optimal cluster heads according to the values of cluster residual energy, node degree and distance related parameters to achieve the best cluster stability and reduce re-clustering operations. By clustering the mobile nodes, the mechanism is effective in creating energy-aware clusters, thus improving network scalability and management. Also, an enhanced ACO-T algorithm is embedded for finding secure and reliable communication paths, taking into account the node lifetime and link lifetime metrics. In order to further improve to reduce energy losses, a hybrid APTEEN based data transmission strategy is used, where the unnecessary data packet transmissions are reduced by employing threshold based communications. Cluster head variations, cluster member variations, clustering overhead, packet delivery ratio, energy consumption and network lifetime are evaluated using the simulation metrics for the proposed T2FCATR framework. Experimental results show that the T2FCATR significantly outperforms existing MANET routing protocols in terms of reducing clustering overhead, improving the routing stability, increasing the packet delivery efficiency and enhancing the lifetime of the network. The framework proposed in this paper offers a strong and intelligent communication solution that is secure, reliable and energy-efficient for highly dynamic MANET environments.
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