Realization of a Distributed Route Management System on Software Routers

This paper describes the implementation of a distributed route management system called the CE-ant algorithm. The algorithm is developed at the Department of Telematics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and results from simulations are promising. The algorithm has, however, never been implemented and tested in a real network carrying real data traffic. The pioneering implementation presented in this paper is based on two main components; an ant-system and a software router. The ant-system is implemented in Java supported by the Kaariboga mobile agent system, while Click and C++ is used to implement the software router. The algorithm is successfully implemented, and the overall system is tested in a small test network with good results.