A Hybrid Approach Using Ant Colony Optimization and Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (ACO: BPSO) for Energy Efficient Multi-path Routing in MANET

Independent mobile devices which are connected through wireless with certain energy called the MANET. Communications between these devices on the network has a constraint of less lifetime of the nodes due to energy consumption. Optimization methods are largely used for increasing the network life time. This paper proposes a hybrid method ACO: BPSO which combines the Ant Colony Optimization along with the Binary Particle Swarm Optimization for increasing the life time of the network. The ACO helps in toggling between the ACTIVE and SLEEP modes of the nodes. The proposed method is tested using the NS2 simulator and the results seems interestingly good in metrics such as throughput, PDR and residual energy when compared with other techniques.