Dynamic Ant-Genetic Routing Algorithm For MANET

ABSTRACT Mobile Ad-hoc networks (MANET) are self-organizing and self-configuring multihop wireless networks, where the structure of the network changes dynamically. This is mainly due to the mobility of the nodes. In static routing, the routes between the nodes are precomputed based on certain factors and are stored in routing table, All packets between any two nodes follow the same path. Because of the dynamic nature of the MANETs the static routing protocols are not suitable. Hence there is a need for a dynamic routing protocol. We introduced a hybrid approach which combines the advantages of the two most popular optimization techniques namely Genetic Algorithm and Ant Colony Optimization in order to reduce the complexities involved in multi-constrained QoS routing for the dynamic environment of MANETs.