Intelligent Ant based Routing Algorithm (IARA) in Mobile Ad hoc networks

Because of increasing use of Mobile Ad hoc and sensor Networks, routing that has a critical role in Quality of Service, is still a challenging task. Mobility, dynamic links and some other influential parameters in this self-configurable network have made routing more difficult in contrast with static networks. Ant Colony optimization with a similar structure to MANET is a biological inspired algorithm that has led to many Ant Routing Algorithm (ARA) in MANET during 10 recent years. However each ARA is created for a specific condition or improving specific parameter. In this paper we propose an intelligent algorithm that in each condition selects an appropriate ARA. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithm is significantly better over exiting ARA for routing in MANET.