This paper introduces AntNet a novel approach to the adaptive learning of routing tables in communications networks AntNet is a distributed mobile agents based Monte Carlo system that was inspired by recent work on the ant colony metaphor for solving optimization problems AntNet s agents concurrently explore the network and exchange collected information The communication among the agents is in...

D P R AntNet and GA-agent algorithms are benchmarked against a series of dynamic network routing problems. Performance is characterized using multiple performance metrics on the Japanese backbone (NTTNET). NTTNET is used on account of the elongated topology presenting a more challenging routing problem than in the case of the American backbone, which is basically square. The AntNet scheme is fo...

Antnet is an agent based routing algorithm that is influenced from the unsophisticated and individual ant’s emergent behaviour. Ants (software agents) are used in antnet to collect information and to update the probabilistic distance vector routing table entries. Modified antnet algorithm has been introduced, which improve the throughput and average delay. Results shows that by detecting and dr...

This paper studies the characteristics and behavior of AntNet routing algorithm and introduces two complementary strategies to improve its adaptability and robustness particularly under unpredicted traffic conditions such as network failure or sudden burst of network traffic. Both of the proposed strategies use the knowledge of backward ants with undesirable trip times called Dead Ants to balan...

Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees must be supported in a network that intends to carry real-time and multimedia traffic effectively. The effort of satisfying the QoS different requirements of these applications has resulted in the proposals of several QoS-based frameworks, such as Integrated Services (IntServ) [1], Differentiated Services (DiffServ) [2], and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MP...

AntNet uses “artificial ants” that would repeatedly travel through the network and collect the information about the current traffic conditions in the network. This information would be used to direct the data packets towards their destination. AntNet showed very promising results and turned out to be highly adaptive in dynamic network environments. The capability of AntNet to adapt to dynamic ...

Antnet is a software agent based routing algorithm that is influenced by the unsophisticated and individual ant’s emergent behaviour. In this paper a modified antnet algorithm for packet switched network has been proposed that offer improvement in the throughput and the average delay by means of detecting and dropping packets routed through the non-optimal routes. By applying boundaries to the ...

Antnet is a software agent based routing algorithm that is influenced by the unsophisticated and individual ants emergent behaviour. In real life, ants deposit some kind of chemical substance to mark the path that they used. Then on their way back they choose the path with the most pheromones which becomes the shortest path. Ants (nothing but software agents) in antnet are used to collect traff...