@Article{JICS-10-007,
author = {Marjan Kuchaki Rafsanjani and Hossein Motahari},
title = {Analysis and Comparison Routing Protocols based on ACO and Without ACO in MANET},
journal = {Journal of Information and Computing Science},
year = {2024},
volume = {10},
number = {1},
pages = {007--018},
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. 
},
issn = {1746-7659},
doi = {https://doi.org/},
url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jics/22560.html}
}