VOYAGING THROUGH VARIOUS ANT BASED ROUTING ALGORITHMS FOR MANETs

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) consists of many wireless nodes or devices, placed together in an ad hoc manner and without the support of fixed infrastructure. All the nodes which are present in the network are mobile and can enter and leave the network any time. MANET serves the effective, operational bandwidth and have limited battery power for the nodes. Many different routing protocols and algorithms are used to conclude this challenging property.The swarm intelligence algorithms are:Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Optimization, Artifical immune systems, Artifical bee colony algorithms and many more. Ant Colony Optimization are more predicting in providing loop free, energy-aware, and multipath routing in mobile ad hoc networks. ACO routing algorithms use simple agents or artificial ants and these agents and ants demonstrate optimum paths between source and destination. These agents communicates indirectly with each other by means of stigmergy. This paper demonstrates a survey on different MANET routing protocols which are based on algorithm inspired by ACO.