A collection of mobile devices forms a network called Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) which establishes communications with the help of intermediate nodes without a fixed infrastructure. The quality of the MANET depends on many parameters like delay, jitter, bandwidth and throughput. Though there are many techniques available for improving the performance through guaranteeing higher throughput, MANET is in need of new techniques for improving throughput which could lead towards higher goodput. There are various interferences exist which affects the throughput. In this research work, the throughput of the networks is increased by the proposed mechanism named as LIRANT which considers the interference of the nodes during the communication. This technique is implemented by having the Ant Colony Optimization along with the least interference routing technique. The simulation result shows that after incorporating the improved least interference routing with ACO, MANET performs well with increased throughput.

MANET, ACO, interference, throughput

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