Abstract: “In this paper we discuss different biologically inspired routing protocols for Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) and the influence it has on the Quality of Service (QoS) in the system. Bio-inspired routing protocols have made the main focus of the contributions to the field of mobile ad-hoc NETworks. Routing problem in MANETs is due to their unpredictable and dynamic nature and also with few resources (speed and autonomy), that's why bio-inspired algorithms are widely used to design adaptive routing strategies for MANETs. In this article, we present a comprehensive state of the art of bio-inspired routing protocols for MANETs. Besides, we propose some future research directions in this area.”

Keywords: Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, Bio-inspired routing, QoS.