• DocumentCode
    2469412
  • Title

    An improved ant colony optimization for communication network routing problem

  • Author

    Zhao, Dongming ; Luo, Liang ; Zhang, Kai

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Peking Univ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    16-19 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a population-based meta-heuristic for combinatorial optimization problems such as communication network routing problem (CNRP). This paper proposes an improved ant colony optimization (IACO), which adapts a new strategy to update the increased pheromone, called ant-weight strategy, and a mutation operation, to solve CNRP. The simulation result for a benchmark problem is reported and compared to the simple ant colony optimization (ACO).
  • Keywords
    optimisation; telecommunication network routing; ant colony optimization; ant-weight strategy; combinatorial optimization problem; communication network routing problem; mutation operation; population-based metaheuristic; Algorithm design and analysis; Ant colony optimization; Communication networks; Concurrent computing; Constraint optimization; DNA computing; Design optimization; Encoding; Routing; Sequences;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bio-Inspired Computing, 2009. BIC-TA '09. Fourth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3866-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3867-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338074
  • Filename
    5338074