Dynamic Source Routing Protocol Using Ant Colony Optimization Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Quality of Service (QoS) in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) is a challenging task because of restricted resource and dynamic configuration. To support QoS, the link state information i.e. bandwidth, delay, cost, jitter, node energy and error rate in the network should be existed and manageable. The concentration of this paper is exploring the scope to QoS routing mechanism, to report the source about QoS existed to any destination node in the wireless network. Since, available QoS routing solutions were managed with only one or two parameters of the QoS. It is significant that MANETs should offer QoS support routing, i.e. acceptable jitter, delay and energy in the situation of real time and multimedia applications. This paper introduces a QoS Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol utilizing Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) known as Ant DSR (ADSR).The DSR and ADSR performance are examined utilizing network simulator2. ADSR generates better results as compared to the available DSR in terms of energy, delay, throughput and jitter.