Helping ants for adaptive network routing

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 343, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 389-403

  Soltani, Azadeh ^a   Akbarzadeh T, M R ^a   Naghibzadeh, M ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ant colony; AntNet algorithm; Multi agent systems; Network routing; NSFNet

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA TRANSFER; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROUTERS; TOPOLOGY;

ANT COLONY; ANTNET ALGORITHM; NETWORK ROUTING; NSFNET;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33747753515     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2006.02.007     Document Type: Article

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