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Abstract

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is one of the most important and unique network in wireless network which has brought maximum mobility and scalability. High efficient routing is an important issue in the design of limited energy resource MANETs. Many research work have been conducted by the researchers in the field of routing protocols for MANETs for making it energy efficient as the nodes are with limited resources in terms of battery supplied energy, storage and processing capability. In this paper we have proposed a new technique of routing protocol which utilizes the concept of swarm intelligence in which bee inspired routing is chosen as the ultimate routing protocol for energy efficient MANETs. To make the system more energy efficient we have chosen the clustered based approach as Bee-AdHoc-C. Bee-AdHoc-C is an evolution from Bee-AdHoc which is a bee inspired routing protocol for MANETs. This method provides parallel routing by which it reduces the overhead and improves the scalability of the system. We have also proposed a Stable Cluster Maintenance Scheme which focuses on minimizing the CH changing. By the proposed method the MANET routing can be properly balanced in terms of energy consumption with a stable cluster network. The results are shown for analysis of clustering overhead, cluster member and cluster head change for different speed and pause time.