An Energy Efficient Enhanced Hybrid Routing Protocol for MANET utilizing Artificial Bee Colony

Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a self-organized wireless network with no central control station or no rigid infrastructure. The main objective of the ad hoc network is that the nodes move arbitrarily that needs the routing protocols to rapidly counter the change of network topology. Limited energy resource availability is the core issue in MANET. For energy efficiency enhancement, this research has acquainted a hybrid routing algorithm which is an amalgamation of Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV) and Temporally-Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) routing protocols for the route discovery process using Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH). Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm has been used for the optimization if some sort of distortion occurs within the network. The simulation has been executed in MATLAB simulation tool using QoS parameters, such as throughput, energy consumption, PDR and delay. Comparative analysis has been done to portray the proposed work effectiveness.