• Rama Bharath Kumar

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a group of mobile nodes which communicates with each other without any supporting infrastructure. Routing in MANET is extremely challenging because of MANETs dynamic features, its limited bandwidth and power energy. MANET nodes operating on battery try to pursue the energy efficiency heuristically by reducing the energy they consumed. 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 demonstrate optimum paths between source and destination. These agents communicate indirectly with each other by means of stigmergy. This paper determines a survey on different MANET routing protocols which are based on algorithm inspired by ACO.

Ant Colony Optimization, Quality of Service (QoS) routing.

"A Survey of ANT Based Routing Algorithms for MANETs Towards Improved Quality of Service", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.167-170, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808771.pdf

"A Survey of ANT Based Routing Algorithms for MANETs Towards Improved Quality of Service", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp167-170, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808771.pdf