Every device on this field runs the real AntHocNet routing core, compiled to WebAssembly. Fix a broken network, and the ants do the routing.
Ant colony routing, the five ant types, how the code is built, and why each kind of network is different.
Results per network type in ns-3, with confidence intervals, and how every number is made.
The core's API as a live ant nest, and the ns-3 install as a quest you check with make doctor.
The roadmap, every decision record, fidelity to the paper, and the research behind the plan.
Keyboard: ? opens the Field guide page for this world, beside the map; 1 to 5 pick a tool; [ and ] select the previous or next node; arrow keys move the selected node (or pan); o switches it off or on; Q and E rotate; plus and minus zoom; space pauses. Every event is also written to the ant log below the map.
AntHocNet is an ant-colony routing protocol for networks with no fixed infrastructure — phones, drones, cars, satellites. This repository implements it once, in a simulator-independent core, and runs that core in ns-3 and in this page.
A node with data and no route sends reactive forward ants. Each one that reaches the destination turns into a backward ant.
The backward ant walks the path home and leaves pheromone on every hop: more on short, fast paths, less on slow ones.
Each data packet picks its next hop at random, weighted by pheromone raised to β = 20 — so the best trail almost always wins.
Hellos find neighbours, proactive ants re-sample routes in use, and link-failure notices and repair ants patch a route when a phone walks away.