Analysis and Comparison Routing Protocols based on ACO and Without ACO in MANET

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are a set of mobile nodes which communicate without any fixed infrastructure and centralized controller. Routing in such networks is a big challenge because of the dynamic nature of this networks that each node keeps moving continuously, power energy and bandwidth are limited. Finding routes which moreover optimization, reduce the overhead of the networks. Different protocols are proposed for routing in MANETs, but nowadays researchers incorporation routing protocol with swarm intelligence (SI) techniques. One of the important techniques is, use of ant colony optimization (ACO) with routing protocols. Nature has proven that the ants finding optimal path between the nest and food and adaptive nature of this agent, make help to propose a suitable routing protocol for MANETs. In this paper, we review some routing protocol that mingle ACO with existing routing protocol and introduce the advantages and disadvantages of them. Finally, we compare these protocols to each other.