Load balancing and Congestion Control in Mobile Ad-hoc Network using Ant Colony Optimization

Within few years Mobile Ad-hoc has fetched more attention due to plug and play infrastructure less network. Mobile Ad hoc wireless networks consist entirely of wireless nodes, placed together in an impromptu manner, i.e. with minimal forethought. All device/nodes have routing capabilities and forward data packets for other devices in multi hop fashion. Device/nodes can enter or leave the system at any time, so that the network topology continuously experiences revisions, modification during deployment as nodes are not fixed but moving. So routing is main problem in MANETs. Ant colony optimization is used to find the ideal solution in terms of the shortest route in a MANETs. In this paper Max-Min ant system, Multi agent Ant Colony algorithm is described. Connection is established on a multi ant net basis to balance the load in the network