The Enhancement of DSDV with ACO Approach Technique

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are accumulation of mobile nodes they are dynamically forming a temporary network without the guide of any infrastructure and centralized control. All the routing data are managed by node itself. Routing in MANET depends upon intermediate nodes. Main source of power for nodes are batteries in the MANETs. Nodes consume power mainly because of transmission of packets and receiving of packets and mobility etc. If a mobile node fails due to failure of power, then this will not only affects the node but additionally its capacity to forward packets on behalf of others and hence overall network lifetime. The mobile nodes are powered by batteries, so to replace or recharge them is not possible. In this paper we proposed DSDV-ACO which consumes less energy and give better throughput as compare to DSDV. Here we used the concept of MBCR (Minimum Battery Cost Routing) which uses the nodes which have sufficient energy to expand the lifetime of the network.