Employing the flocking behavior of birds for controlling congestion in autonomous decentralized networks

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1753-1761

  Antoniou, Pavlos ^a   Pitsillides, Andreas ^a   Blackwell, Tim ^b   Engelbrecht, Andries ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD FLOCKS; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; CONGESTION CONTROL MECHANISM; CONGESTION DETECTION; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS; DIRECTION OF MOTION; GLOBAL ATTRACTOR; GRACEFUL PERFORMANCE DEGRADATIONS; HIGH LOAD; MINIMAL INFORMATION; NETWORK CONTROL; NETWORK LIFETIME; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SELF-ADAPTABLE MECHANISMS; SPECIFIC TASKS; TOPOLOGICAL SPACES; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

AD HOC NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70450064290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4983153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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