Performance evaluation of artificial ant colony using zone based routing approach in MANET

AntNet uses “artificial ants” that would repeatedly travel through the network and collect the information about the current traffic conditions in the network. This information would be used to direct the data packets towards their destination. AntNet showed very promising results and turned out to be highly adaptive in dynamic network environments. The capability of AntNet to adapt to dynamic environments seems to make AntNetlike protocol well suited for the routing in MANET. In our work, a self-organizing network model is designed using ant net routing, and this is a simple routing mechanism. The way about how local information is exchanged is depend on the behavior of the node. In order to adapt the feature of routing algorithms are designed base on distributed routing that are Ant Net algorithm using Zone based routing scheme. The algorithms can be used to find shortest paths in the network hop by hop, and the next hop selection policies are designed, and the algorithms are expanded to support quality of service parameters.