Abstract
Efficient and effective routing protocols play a crucial and central role to measure the quality of service of the networks. Recent development in networking technologies like Software defined networks (SDN), Internet of things (IoT) and advancements in mobile and wireless communication has raised questions and concerns about the performance, scalability and reliability of the traditional routing schemes and protocols being used for years. The aim of this paper is to gauge the performance of various state of the art routing algorithms like distance vector, link state and session routing with ant colony-based optimization techniques used earlier for shortest path detection in various arrangements.