Performance analysis of bee-hive routing in multi-radio networks

In recent years, wireless communication technology has reduced the distance between people and has hence become a significant part of our lives. Two such technologies are WiFi(IEEE 802.11) and WiMAX(IEEE 802.16) where the latter is a long range system covering many kilometers, whereas former is a synonym for WLAN providing a coverage of only short ranges. This work describes the implementation of a framework in which a multi-hop, ad-hoc network is deployed with hybrid nodes to enhance network throughput. The data traffic received is split between the WiFi and WiMAX radios on the basis of th e split coefficient value statically. The routing algorithm being implemented in this paper is the be e-hive algorithm. Bee-hive algorithm is a multi-path routing algorithm inspired by the social behavior of swarms of bees. It is dynamic, robust and flexible yet simple algorithm which can prove helpful for optimal management of available network resources. In this paper, we have split data traffic over two radio channels for achieving enhanced performance and reduced delay.