Ant Colony Optimization Techniques in MANET for Efficient Routing: A Survey

All networks tend to become a lot of and a lot of difficult. They’ll be wired, with several routers, or wireless, with several mobile nodes, the matter remains the same: so as to induce the best from the network, there's a requirement to search out the shortest path. The a lot of difficult the network is, the harder it's to manage the routes and indicate which one is that the best. The ants, in their necessity to search out food and brings it back to the nest, manage not only to explore a huge space, however additionally to point to their peers the location of the food whereas transportation it back to the nest. Thus, they grasp wherever their nest is, and additionally their destination, while not having a worldwide read of the bottom. Most of the time, they will notice the shortest path and adapt to ground changes, therefore proving their nice efficiency toward this tough task. In this work we proposed load balancing and reliability enhancement using Ant based approach in MANET. The Ant behaviour of follow search routing is on the basis of pheromones. The pheromones are injected by ant in a route and follow that route were the pheromones are more injected means that route is the suitable route for reaching to destination. In this paper we presents the different techniques of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) that are improves the routing mechanism. Key Words—MANET, Ant, Pheromones, Survey, ACO