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Abstract

Design and development of routing protocol is one among the plunge research in cognitive radio mobile ad hoc networks (CRAHNs). Swarm intelligence is a fairly new-fangled loom to problem solving so as to acquire inspiration from the social behaviors of insects, such as ants and bees. Self-organization, decentralization, adaptivity, robustness, and scalability make swarm intelligence a successful devise archetype for routing in CRAHNs. This third contribution to the doctoral research aims in design and development of bee inspired agent based routing protocol (BIABRP) for CRAHNs. Adaptive scouting, adaptive foraging, optimal path selection and detection of path removals are performed using honey bee inspired strategy. NS2 simulation tool is used to examine the performance of the proposed BIABRP. Appropriate performance metrics are chosen in order to conduct performance evaluation and the results prove that the proposed BIABRP outperforms in terms of packet delivery ratio, end-to-end latency and primary users activity.