Routing in Telecommunications Networks with Ant-Like Agents

. A simple mechanism is presented, based on ant-like agents, for routing and load balancing in telecommunications networks, following the initial works of Appleby and Stewart [1] and Schoonderwoerd et al. [32,33]. In the present work, agents are very similar to those proposed by Schoonderwoerd et al. [32,33], but are supplemented with the ability to perform more computations at switching nodes, which significantly improves the network's relaxation and its response to perturbations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: IATA
• Authors: Eric Bonabeau, Florian Hénaux, Sylvain Guérin, Dominique Snyers, Pascale Kuntz, Guy Theraulaz
• Keywords: IATA 1998, IATA 1999, Load Balancing, Schoonderwoerd Et, Simple Mechanism