A bee-inspired approach for information dissemination in VANETs

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a system composed of many individuals interacting locally with each other and/or with their environment, providing collective problem solving. Examples of natural systems are colonies of bees, ants and termites, schools of fish, flocks of birds. In this paper, we introduce a bee-inspired algorithm for information dissemination in VANETs. Honey bees communicate with each other only in bee hives. The proposed algorithm exploits bee communication principles to allow vehicles communicating with each other. Simulations have been conducted and results are reported to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.