Restoration performance vs. overhead in a swarm intelligence path management system

Poul E. Heegaard, Otto J. Wittner

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Abstract

CE-ants is a distributed, robust and adaptive swarm intelligence strategy for dealing with path management in communication networks. This paper focuses on various strategies for adjusting the overhead generated by the CE-ants as the state of the network changes. The overhead is in terms of number of management packets (ants) generated, and the adjustments are done by controlling the ant generation rate that controls the number ants traversing the network. The link state events considered are failure and restoration events. A simulation scenario compares restoration performance of rate adaptation in the source node with rate adaptation in the intermediate nodes close to the link state events. Implicit detection of failure events through monitoring ant parameters are considered. Results indicate that an implicit adjustment in the source node is a promising approach with respect to restoration time and the number of ants required.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAnt Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence - 5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages282-293
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)3540384820, 9783540384823
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
EventAnt Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence - 5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006, Proceedings - Brussels, Belgium
Duration: 4 Sep 20067 Sep 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4150 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceAnt Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence - 5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006, Proceedings
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityBrussels
Period4/09/067/09/06

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