Ant based routing algorithm over clustering technique to provide better communication for manets with minimum hop count
International Journal of Latest Trends in Engineering and Technology · 2016
If mobile nodes are densely populated then it is very difficult for a mobile node to identify the destination node [1].In flat routing technique, Route discovery process consumes lot of energy and route request packet occupies lot of bandwidth.All the intermediate nodes are expected to contribute the route discovery process by giving the information regarding their neighbors.Also fill their routing table with the information they collect from these route discovery packet and route reply packet.Flat routing technique consumes lot of power and delay is increased.Hence hierarchical method has to be implemented to overcome the above mentioned drawbacks [2].Power aware routing can be implemented to reduce the power consumed in route discovery process.The amount of data stored on each of these neighboring nodes can also be reduced.As less number of nodes is involved in forwarding the packets on the wireless medium bandwidth will also be less consumed [3].Multicasting is a technique where one mobile node can communicate to multiple mobile nodes.Here there is a single source and multiple destinations scattered across the MANET [4].Multicasting on MANETs can be achieved by the MAODV.In MAODV, all the nodes willing