Improving service quality parameters using the ant colony algorithm in MANTE network

Abstract mobile ad hoc network (MANET) are a number of devices such as mobile phones, personal digital devices or laptops that wirelessly form a network together without the use of centralized components such as routers. One of the existing protocols for routing in MANET is the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV), in which the nodes have the status of the neighboring nodes in the form of a routing table. The AODV protocol has features such as creating a route when needed, as well as good performance in MANETcase. But this protocol does not scale well for large networks where the number of nodes and the traffic volume are large. The mentioned problem causes quality of service parameters such as bandwidth, delay, end-to-end delay, throughput, routing overhead, and Packet loss in this protocol do not work well. One of the solutions to solve the problems is to use meta-heuristic algorithms. Among the meta-heuristic algorithms, Ant Colony Algorithm is considered because the nature of routing can be seen in it. We continued to improve the quality of service parameters by using the ant colony algorithm, which has improved the performance of MANET. According to the results of the conducted researches, it is possible to use the ant colony meta-heuristic algorithm to improve service quality parameters in MANET. This method can improve the performance and satisfaction of users and in finally lead to the overall improvement of MANET.