Applicability of Swarm Intelligence in Mobile Ad Hoc Network

The systematic literature review has been carried out in an order to find techniques that were proposed for using swarm intelligence in MANETs. There are various techniques that exists in literature but has limitations and constraints. Therefore, Intensive research and study was done in the field to study and get in depth knowledge about the topic.We found out that use of artificial intelligence techniques ie. Swarm intelligence techniques, are better than the traditional routing techniques used earlier. Swarm intelligence techniques such as Ant Colony Optimization, Glowworm Swarm Optimization, Artificial Bee Colony. Our work was confined to Ant Colony Optimization.