Optimizing link quality and bandwidth estimation for dynamic source routing

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) merge wireless communication with higher node mobility. Restricted wireless communication range, and node mobility requires cooperation with all others to offer networking, and with the network changing vigorously, needs are to be continually met. Routing protocols allows MANET operation. To improve the performance of the routing, various constraints such as bandwidth availability, hop count, link quality, energy are to taken into consideration during design of the routing protocol. This research paper provides a protocol for MANETs based on Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) and hybrid optimization based on Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and Tabu search to find routes to destination with optimalhop count, link quality and bandwidth estimation.