Abstract:Presented is an antbased routing algorithm demanding on energy(ARADE), to improve the two situations of short lifetime and slow convergence speed of ant colony algorithm caused by unbalanced energy distribution. The inversed pheromone table which stores routing information simplifies the data structure of routing request packet. The residual energy of the node, energy consumption of the path and the number of hops are normalized to a parameter as a performance evaluation value, which can balance the residual energy of the entire network node. What’s more, the maximum pheromone value during the iteration will be used in the selfiteration to make the pheromone value get a positive feedback. As a result, the convergence speed of the algorithm can be accelerated. The simulation of the experiment is performed on NS2 platform. With the increase of the transmission rate of the data packet, its lifetime, average energy consumption and endtoend delay will be better than AODV.