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A MANET is a wireless ad hoc network with neither a fixed infrastructure nor an administrator to monitor the network operations. Clustering the network helps manage the network better. MANETs are networks that are ad hoc in nature. This nature gives rise to issues like loss of packets, security etc. which needs to be addressed in order to make the network more efficient. One major problem in clustering is the delay involved in cluster formation and in the selection of a suitable cluster head. We have proposed an improved version of the ant colony algorithm that employs two strategies to deduce the movement of the nodes and use this information to reduce the overheads in communication. The first phase helps to dynamically determine the heuristic parameters of the network in order to select the appropriate nodes for the cluster. The second phase helps form clusters faster and selects the cluster head …