Traditional Ad Hoc network routing protocols are mainly based on the condition "Shortest Path"
and possibly form many congestion nodes to cause routing instability and re-routing.To this point
this paper proposed a new bio-inspired adaptive routing protocol (ATAR) based on a mathematic model ARAS which is originally a model for its host Escherichia coli cells to adapt to changes in the availability of a nutrient.In this paper
queue buffer of routing node and hop count of feedback are defined as a new metric
fitness
which represents the comprehensive factor of congestion level and the length of routing path.We map the fitness of neighbors of routing node to the cell volume growth speed in the improved ARAS model
and calculate the state values of neighbors with the model.Then
the routing node selects the next hop according to the maximum.Using this method
we can adaptive to choose a leisurely node as the next hop with shorter path.