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Bessaoud, Karim. "Algorithmes auto-stabilisants pour les réseaux ad hoc." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013VERS0048.
Full textIn this thesis, we propose three self-stabilizing algorithms for ad hoc wireless networks. The first one is an algorithm that builds a low weight connected dominating set, called backbone. The backbone is used to create a logical infrastructure in an ad hoc network. We show by simulation the efficiency of this algorithm in different contexts according to the semantics given to the weight of the nodes : the backbone may contain for instance the least mobile nodes or nodes with the highest battery level. The two other algorithms deal with energy conservation in wireless sensor networks. We propose two solutions based on topology control by reducing transmission powers, each one dedicated to a type of communication used by the sensors : communication between any pair of sensors or by diffusion. The proposed algorithms are formally proven and evaluated by simulation
Guizani, Badreddine. "algorithmes de clustérisation et routage dans les réseaux Ad Hoc." Phd thesis, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00703257.
Full textBricard-Vieu, Vincent. "Contrôle de topologie et qualité de service dans les réseaux ad hoc." Dijon, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005DIJOS056.
Full textThis thesis deals with clustering and quality of service in mobile ad hoc networks. Node mobility in such networks induces a highly dynamical topology. Robust routing protocols are then required and organization of nodes is needed. Many clustering algorithms were proposed in the literature, consisting of phases of election of cluster-heads and construction of clusters, and phases of maintenance to preserve the stability of the hierarchy. However, that algorithms generate a significant overhead, damaging the performances. To improve these performances, we propose in this thesis, algorithms consisting of spacing the signalling messages sent by the cluster-head and replacing them by an estimate of its location. Moreover, some of our algorithms propose a local election, more efficient than a global one. Using the network simulator GloMoSim, simulations are conducted to evaluate our algorithm performances and compare them with existing ones
Canourgues, Lucile. "Algorithmes de routage dans les réseaux mobile ad hoc tactique à grande échelle." Toulouse, INPT, 2008. http://ethesis.inp-toulouse.fr/archive/00000595/.
Full textThe current Transformation of the military networks adopts the MANET as a main component of the tactical domain. Indeed, a MANET is the right solution to enable highly mobile, highly reactive and quickly deployable tactical networks. Many applications such as the Situational Awareness rely on group communications, underlying the need for a multicast service with the tactical environment where the MANET is employed as a transit network. The purpose of this thesis is to study the setting up of an optimal multicast service within this tactical environment. We firstly focus on defining the protocol architecture to carry out within the tactical network paying particular attention to the MANET. This network is interconnected within different types of networks based on IP technologies and implementing potentially heterogeneous multicast protocols. The tactical MANET is supposed to be made of several hundred of mobile nodes, which implies that the scalability is crucial in the multicast protocol architecture choice. Since the concept of clustering proposes interesting scalability features, we consider that the MANET is a clustered network. Thereby, we define two multicast routing protocols adapted to the MANET: firstly STAMP that is in charge of the multicast communications within each cluster and secondly SAFIR that handles multicast flows between the clusters. These two protocols that can be implemented independently, act in concert to provide an efficient and scalable multicast service for the tactical MANET
Canourgues, Lucile Beylot André-Luc. "Algorithmes de routage dans les réseaux mobile ad hoc tactique à grande échelle." Toulouse : INP Toulouse, 2008. http://ethesis.inp-toulouse.fr/archive/00000595.
Full textDrira, Kaouther. "Coloration d’arêtes ℓ-distance et clustering : études et algorithmes auto-stabilisants." Thesis, Lyon 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LYO10335/document.
Full textGraph coloring is a famous combinatorial optimization problem and is very attractive for its numerous applications. Many variants and generalizations of the graph-coloring problem have been introduced and studied. An edge-coloring assigns a color to each edge so that no two adjacent edges share the same color. In the first part of this thesis, we study the problem of the ℓ-distance-edge-coloring, which is a generalization of the classical edge-coloring. The study focuses on the following classes of graphs : paths, grids, hypercubes, trees and some power graphs. We are conducting a combinatorial and algorithmic study of the parameter. We give a sequential coloring algorithm for each class of graph. The ℓ-distance-edge-coloring is especially considered in large-scale networks. However, with the increasing number of nodes, networks are increasingly vulnerable to faults. In the second part, we focus on fault-tolerant algorithms and in particular self-stabilizing algorithms. We propose a self-stabilizing algorithm for proper edge-coloring. Our solution is based on Vizing’s result to minimize number of colors. Subsequently, we propose a selfstabilizing clustering algorithm for applications in the field of security in mobile ad hoc networks. Our solution is a partitioning into clusters based on trust relationships between nodes. We also propose a group key-management algorithm in mobile ad hoc networks based on the topology of clusters previously built. The security of our protocol is strengthened by its clustering criterion which constantly monitors trust relationships and expels malicious nodes out of the multicast session
Gawedzki, Ignacy. "Algorithmes distribués pour la sécurité et la qualité de service dans les réseaux ad hoc mobiles." Paris 11, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA112240.
Full textCurrently available routing protocols for ad hoc networks assume the total absence of malicious participants, although this assumption is seldom true in practical applications. In this work, we look for a way to augment proactive protocols so as to let nodes watch over the network in a distributed fashion and measure the threat represented by every node. The measurement is used to extract a quality of service metric used in turn by the routing protocol to avoid the most suspected nodes, according to all the implemented detection methods. We propose to detect data packet loss, be it intentional or not. The detection is performed by a verification of the principle of flow conservation, based on the exchange of packet counters between neighbors. A scalable method of diffusion of these values is also proposed. The actual checking is used to maintain a local degree of distrust which is diffused in all the network and recombined by the nodes into a global metric of distrust in each node. The application to the OLSR protocol is described and its performance evaluated by simulation. We show that the solution is efficient and that the impact of the control overhead on the medium capacity remains low. Finally, an experimental platform of OLSR with quality of service and security is presented, which is aimed at making our solutions work in an actual real setup in order to reveal any potential problem that may appear with the use of commercial off-the-shelf hardware
Drira, Kaouther. "Coloration d'arêtes ℓ-distance et clustering : études et algorithmes auto-stabilisants." Phd thesis, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00736580.
Full textHauspie, Michaël. "Contributions à l'étude des gestionnaires de services distribués dans les réseaux ad hoc." Phd thesis, Université des Sciences et Technologie de Lille - Lille I, 2005. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00656359.
Full textSahin, Serdar. "Advanced receivers for distributed cooperation in mobile ad hoc networks." Thesis, Toulouse, INPT, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019INPT0089.
Full textMobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are rapidly deployable wireless communications systems, operating with minimal coordination in order to avoid spectral efficiency losses caused by overhead. Cooperative transmission schemes are attractive for MANETs, but the distributed nature of such protocols comes with an increased level of interference, whose impact is further amplified by the need to push the limits of energy and spectral efficiency. Hence, the impact of interference has to be mitigated through with the use PHY layer signal processing algorithms with reasonable computational complexity. Recent advances in iterative digital receiver design techniques exploit approximate Bayesian inference and derivative message passing techniques to improve the capabilities of well-established turbo detectors. In particular, expectation propagation (EP) is a flexible technique which offers attractive complexity-performance trade-offs in situations where conventional belief propagation is limited by computational complexity. Moreover, thanks to emerging techniques in deep learning, such iterative structures are cast into deep detection networks, where learning the algorithmic hyper-parameters further improves receiver performance. In this thesis, EP-based finite-impulse response decision feedback equalizers are designed, and they achieve significant improvements, especially in high spectral efficiency applications, over more conventional turbo-equalization techniques, while having the advantage of being asymptotically predictable. A framework for designing frequency-domain EP-based receivers is proposed, in order to obtain detection architectures with low computational complexity. This framework is theoretically and numerically analysed with a focus on channel equalization, and then it is also extended to handle detection for time-varying channels and multiple-antenna systems. The design of multiple-user detectors and the impact of channel estimation are also explored to understand the capabilities and limits of this framework. Finally, a finite-length performance prediction method is presented for carrying out link abstraction for the EP-based frequency domain equalizer. The impact of accurate physical layer modelling is evaluated in the context of cooperative broadcasting in tactical MANETs, thanks to a flexible MAC-level simulator
Iguchi-Cartigny, Julien. "Contributions à la diffusion dans les réseaux ad hoc." Lille 1, 2003. https://pepite-depot.univ-lille.fr/LIBRE/Th_Num/2003/50376-2003-229.pdf.
Full textMiranda, Karen. "Algorithmes d'auto-déploiement adaptatifs pour des réseaux de substitution mobiles sans fil." Phd thesis, Université des Sciences et Technologie de Lille - Lille I, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00918017.
Full textMiranda, Campos Karen Samara. "Algorithmes d'auto-déploiement adaptatifs pour des réseaux de substitution mobiles sans fil." Thesis, Lille 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LIL10147/document.
Full textIn case of a disaster, the communication infrastructure may be partially or totally destroyed, or insufficient due to the high data traffic. Despite this, it is necessary to provide connectivity between the rescue teams and the command center. Therefore, temporary communication solutions are crucial until the infrastructure is restored. In this thesis, we focus on the deployment of communication solution called substitution networks. Thus, we propose a self-deployment algorithm to allow mobile routers that compose a substitution network spread out to cover the target area. Our algorithm monitors the network conditions to decide whether the router should move or not, adjusting its position based on one-hop information by means of active measurement, i.e., probe packets. Such probe packets allows the algorithm to monitor the channel and its eventual changes over time. If the probe transmission rate is enough high, the insights obtained will be accurate, however, the overhead will increase proportionally consuming network resources. Hence, we propose to use surrogate data obtained by means of an autoregressive estimator to reduce the overhead without impacting our deployment algorithm. We show by simulation the efficiency of both algorithms and their performance in terms of deployment time, delay, jitter, and throughput
Morales, Varela Nelson Víctor. "Algorithmique des réseaux de communication radio modélisés par de [sic] graphes." Nice, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007NICE4032.
Full textThis thesis studies the algorithmics anc complexity of communications in a radio network. Radio networks are particular, because the transmission distance is limited and because certain transmissions may interfere with each other. We model this constraints by assuming that two nodes (radio equipment) can communicate with each other if they are at a distance smaller or equal than d_T and that a node interferes with any other that is at a distance smaller or equal than "d_I. This distances are considered in both cases: when they nodes belong to the Euclidean space and the distance between the nodes is the usual Euclidean distance, and when the distances are measured over a graph representing the network. A round being a set of transmissions that are compatible (do not interfere) we interest ourselves in the problem of gathering information originated at the nodes in the network into a central node called the sink. Our goal is to find the minimum number of rounds required to gather all the information and to devise algorithms that calculate this minimum. This problem is motivated by a question asked by France Telecom about providing internet to villages in France (internet dans les villages). The nodes represent houses (clients) that communicate with each other by means of radio signals, their objective being to access internet using a central gateway which, in turn, is connected to the internet with by satellite. The same problem is found in sensor networks, where information is collected in sensors (the nodes) and has to be gathered in a base station. We considered the case where each node has a fixed number of packets to transmit and the distances are measured over a base-graph. We have shown that the problem of finding an optimal solution is Np-Hard in the general case, but we provided a four approximation algorithm, valid for any base-graph. We have also studied either optimal or nearly optimal solutions for particular topologies like the path and the 2-D grid. We have also studied the systolic case where packets are transmitted permanently, the objective being to satisfy arbitrary traffic demands, per unit of time, with the smallest possible delay. We have studied this variant of the problem in the case where distances are measured on a graph, but also then they are measured in the Euclidean space. We have shown that the problem is NP-Hard, have established a four approximation and obtained either optimal or nearly optimal solutions for the path, trees and subsets of the 2-D grid
Casteigts, Arnaud. "Contribution à l'algorithmique distribuée dans les réseaux mobiles ad hocCalculs locaux et réétiquetages de graphes dynamiques." Bordeaux 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007BOR13430.
Full textRachedi, Abderrezak. "Contributions à la sécurité dans les réseaux mobiles ad Hoc." Phd thesis, Université d'Avignon, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00683602.
Full textKhalfallah, Sofiane. "Algorithmique best-effort pour les réseaux dynamiques." Compiègne, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010COMP1889.
Full textMany problems are open in the design of distributed applications (mobility, ad hoc communication, wireless technology, etc. ). We focus our work on a specific case study of dynamic networks, which is Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET). We first establish a state-of-the-art for this field based on the European projects in the VANETs. Second, we model the IEEE 802. 11 standard that tends to be a standard for mobile communication. Best-effort algorithmics allowing to complete the concept of auto-stabilization in the management of dynamic networks are presented. For that aim, we introduce the concept of service continuity. This concept is close to the super-stabilization. We believe that the idea of metrics studying dynamic topologies is important (as the notion of duration of a continuous round). The proposed algorithm works in dynamic and distributed systems. It globally ensures a kind of service continuity to applications while the system is still converging, except if a huge number of topology changes happen. After that, we present our contributions in the Airplug software, as well as in the design and the implementation of a complete platform for performance evaluation and fast prototyping of best-effort protocols. An implementation is done of the distributed protocol GRP to estimate its performances in the Airplug-ns mode. Finally, we propose appropriate metrics that describe the stability of groups in order to evaluate the performance of our protocol
Ghedira, Mohamed Chadli. "Le guidage routier et les algorithmes de routage dans les réseaux véhiculaires." Thesis, Evry, Institut national des télécommunications, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011TELE0019.
Full textIn this thesis, we focus on two types of architectures in vehicular networks: infrastructure networks and networks without infrastructure. The goal of this work is to define solutions to improve connectivity for passengers of vehicles in environments with variable density of access points. For this, we start by studying route guidance systems (whose purpose is to guide a vehicle from a starting point to a destination point), taking into account the locations of access points along roads. Our first contribution is to define a route guidance algorithm that offers superior connectivity compared to the default path (usually the shortest path) while maintaining a reasonable distance for passengers. We dealt also another issue which consists in minimizing the number of handovers to improve the quality of network service. We evaluated our algorithm in terms of covered distance and the number of handovers, while making sure to keep a reasonable traveled distance. After that, we studied the impact of the choice of route guidance algorithm in the performance of the network layer, where we took into account two types of routing protocols data: reactive and proactive. Next, we studied a recurrent problem in vehicular networks which is routing data from vehicle to vehicle. This is particularly useful in the absence of available infrastructure on the road. We propose a cross-layer architecture that takes advantage of the characteristics of wireless networks to design a multi-hops routing protocol. Unlike most proposals for routing protocols, our solution does not require an exchange of signaling messages between neighbors, and so improves network performance in terms of overhead and efficiency, especially for networks with high mobility such as vehicular networks, where neighbors change frequently, making it difficult to update information from each mobile node on its surroundings
Riahla, Mohamed Amine. "Contributions au routage et l'anonymat des échanges dans les réseaux dynamiques." Limoges, 2013. http://aurore.unilim.fr/theses/nxfile/default/092038da-e61a-46b8-81d6-5690d2cbece3/blobholder:0/2013LIMO4051.pdf.
Full textThe quick development of internet technologies gave birth to new types of network architectures with highly decentralized services that are organized independently. These characteristics have a real advantage : the deployment and implemetion are rapid and inexpensive for this type of networks. But in return, these networks can lead to difficulties when setting-up some services such as routing and security in general. In this thesis, we have taken as a case study P2P networks and ad hoc networks. We propose in this paper a set of contributions that we classify into two parts : the exchange anonymity in a P2P network and routing in an ad hoc networks
Lagos, Jenschke Tomas. "Toward reliable and bounded latency for internet of things." Thesis, Ecole nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020IMTA0222.
Full textThe Low Power and Lossy Network (LLN) are wireless Internet of Things (IoT) technologies that operate with limited processing power, memory, or power. Furthermore, they have links characterized by high loss rates. However, due to their low cost and easy handling, they have become popular in the industry 4.0. Therefore, for these technologies to be incorporated into the industry, they need to ensure reliable, fast, and stable transmission. The IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) is a distance vector routing protocol specialized in these IoT applications. Its adaptability has made it one of the most popular protocols for LLNs. However,its one-way upstream transmission is not sufficient to guarantee transmission reliability. This has resulted in a challenge to the industry and different functions and strategies have been proposed to address this problem. Unfortunately, many of these strategies cannot be replicated for different environments and require trade-offs in other areas. In this thesis,our goal is to provide a customized RPL so that it can ensure transmission reliability while maintaining a low delay and fluctuation. For this purpose, we propose different functions and algorithms that allow the extension of multi-path in RPL
Kouassi, Kouakou. "Modélisation et optimisation des transmissions ultra-large bande à impulsions radio dans les réseaux ad hoc." Thesis, Lille 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LIL10197/document.
Full textThis thesis focuses on impulse radio Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) transmissions in ad hoc sensor network. Such networks are able to generate strong enough multiple access interference to be less reliable. The method used to distinguish data is the Pulse Position Modulation where different delay is assign to each data type. The purpose of this study is to suggest proposals to mitigate this issue while fitting with the radio waves regulations in the countries where these networks will operate. As a rough guide, this thesis only refers to the American UWB regulation. However, the obtained results are relevant to any kind of mask. The masks are highly restrictive, we therefore interested to the transmitted signals spectrum shapes, first, in order to guarantee an optimal use of the available power. The proposal we made for this purpose reveals highly interesting. Then an analytical model taking into account the last suggestion is built to numerically evaluate the performances. These performances are compared to the ones obtained with Monte-Carlo simulations. It appears that the model is accurate enough to be used in an optimisation process. This process aims to find data signals that give the best performances and the optimal spectral occupancies, at the same time. The obtained results show that our proposal allows to make more reliable transmissions in dense ad hoc sensor networks
El, Ali Farah. "Communication unicast dans les réseaux mobiles dynamiques." Phd thesis, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00795923.
Full textKaisser, Florent. "Communications dans les réseaux fortement dynamiques." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00512021.
Full textGünther, Marco. "Algorithmen und Techniken in Ad-Hoc-Netzwerken." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2002. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-200200386.
Full textYeung, Chun. "A PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS IN AD HOCNETWORKS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2393.
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Xie, Qiling. "Energy efficient routing in ad hoc networks /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2003. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ELEC%202003%20XIE.
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Srivastava, Gaurav. "Efficient topology control algorithms for ad hoc networks." Access electronically, 2006. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080506.144718/index.html.
Full textNguyen, Le Huy. "Auto-stabilisation et partitionnement dans les réseaux Ad Hoc." Paris 11, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA112205.
Full textThe clustering problem consists in partitioning network nodes into groups called clusters, thus giving at the network a hierarchical organization. The self-stabilization is an approach which tolerates to the transient faults. This approach tolerates a temporary interruption of the system service and an inconsistent behavior of several processors, but guarantees a return to the normal in finite time. Basagni proposed two clustering algorithms (called DMAC and GDMAC) in an Ad Hoc network. However they are not self-stabilizing. In the first time we proposed a self-stabilizing version of DMAC and GDMAC. In the self-stabilization, no property is guaranteed during the phase of convergence. In the second time we presented a robust version of the self-stabilizing algorithm GDMAC. The property of robustness guarantees that, starting from an arbitrary state, very quickly the network is partitioned into clusters. Then the system continues to build an optimal partition. In the last time we proposed the first self-stabilizing clustering algorithm where the clusters have a bounded size. A bound on the size of a cluster ensures that the leaders are not overloaded by their tasks of leader
Liu, Zhenyu. "Swarm-based routing algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487220.
Full textNg, Kok-Poh. "Energy-efficient algorithms for ad hoc wireless sensor networks." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/4028.
Full textYu, Dongxiao, and 于东晓. "Distributed algorithmic studies in wireless ad hoc networks." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206656.
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Sun, Yijiang. "Distributed scheduling in multihop ad hoc networks." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B39558289.
Full textSun, Yijiang, and 孫一江. "Distributed scheduling in multihop ad hoc networks." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39558289.
Full textAhmed, Tarek Helmi Abd el-Nabi Ali. "Modeling and simulation of routing protocol for ad hoc networks combining queuing network analysis and ANT colony algorithms." [S.l. : s.n.], 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=974552534.
Full textPradhan, Pushkar P. "Efficient group membership algorithm for ad hoc networks." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2002. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000593.
Full textMonti, Gabriele <1978>. "Management and routing algorithms for ad-hoc and sensor networks." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2008. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/928/.
Full textKim, Jinguk. "Energy-time efficient routing algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2013. http://research.gold.ac.uk/9613/.
Full textMohan, Divya. "Dynamic spectrum allocation algorithms in large wireless ad hoc networks." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738326.
Full textDi, Caro Gianni. "Ant colony optimization and its application to adaptive routing in telecommunication networks." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211149.
Full textThe simultaneous presence of these and other fascinating and unique characteristics have made ant societies an attractive and inspiring model for building new algorithms and new multi-agent systems. In the last decade, ant societies have been taken as a reference for an ever growing body of scientific work, mostly in the fields of robotics, operations research, and telecommunications.
Among the different works inspired by ant colonies, the Ant Colony Optimization metaheuristic (ACO) is probably the most successful and popular one. The ACO metaheuristic is a multi-agent framework for combinatorial optimization whose main components are: a set of ant-like agents, the use of memory and of stochastic decisions, and strategies of collective and distributed learning.
It finds its roots in the experimental observation of a specific foraging behavior of some ant colonies that, under appropriate conditions, are able to select the shortest path among few possible paths connecting their nest to a food site. The pheromone, a volatile chemical substance laid on the ground by the ants while walking and affecting in turn their moving decisions according to its local intensity, is the mediator of this behavior.
All the elements playing an essential role in the ant colony foraging behavior were understood, thoroughly reverse-engineered and put to work to solve problems of combinatorial optimization by Marco Dorigo and his co-workers at the beginning of the 1990's.
From that moment on it has been a flourishing of new combinatorial optimization algorithms designed after the first algorithms of Dorigo's et al. and of related scientific events.
In 1999 the ACO metaheuristic was defined by Dorigo, Di Caro and Gambardella with the purpose of providing a common framework for describing and analyzing all these algorithms inspired by the same ant colony behavior and by the same common process of reverse-engineering of this behavior. Therefore, the ACO metaheuristic was defined a posteriori, as the result of a synthesis effort effectuated on the study of the characteristics of all these ant-inspired algorithms and on the abstraction of their common traits.
The ACO's synthesis was also motivated by the usually good performance shown by the algorithms (e.g. for several important combinatorial problems like the quadratic assignment, vehicle routing and job shop scheduling, ACO implementations have outperformed state-of-the-art algorithms).
The definition and study of the ACO metaheuristic is one of the two fundamental goals of the thesis. The other one, strictly related to this former one, consists in the design, implementation, and testing of ACO instances for problems of adaptive routing in telecommunication networks.
This thesis is an in-depth journey through the ACO metaheuristic, during which we have (re)defined ACO and tried to get a clear understanding of its potentialities, limits, and relationships with other frameworks and with its biological background. The thesis takes into account all the developments that have followed the original 1999's definition, and provides a formal and comprehensive systematization of the subject, as well as an up-to-date and quite comprehensive review of current applications. We have also identified in dynamic problems in telecommunication networks the most appropriate domain of application for the ACO ideas. According to this understanding, in the most applicative part of the thesis we have focused on problems of adaptive routing in networks and we have developed and tested four new algorithms.
Adopting an original point of view with respect to the way ACO was firstly defined (but maintaining full conceptual and terminological consistency), ACO is here defined and mainly discussed in the terms of sequential decision processes and Monte Carlo sampling and learning.
More precisely, ACO is characterized as a policy search strategy aimed at learning the distributed parameters (called pheromone variables in accordance with the biological metaphor) of the stochastic decision policy which is used by so-called ant agents to generate solutions. Each ant represents in practice an independent sequential decision process aimed at constructing a possibly feasible solution for the optimization problem at hand by using only information local to the decision step.
Ants are repeatedly and concurrently generated in order to sample the solution set according to the current policy. The outcomes of the generated solutions are used to partially evaluate the current policy, spot the most promising search areas, and update the policy parameters in order to possibly focus the search in those promising areas while keeping a satisfactory level of overall exploration.
This way of looking at ACO has facilitated to disclose the strict relationships between ACO and other well-known frameworks, like dynamic programming, Markov and non-Markov decision processes, and reinforcement learning. In turn, this has favored reasoning on the general properties of ACO in terms of amount of complete state information which is used by the ACO's ants to take optimized decisions and to encode in pheromone variables memory of both the decisions that belonged to the sampled solutions and their quality.
The ACO's biological context of inspiration is fully acknowledged in the thesis. We report with extensive discussions on the shortest path behaviors of ant colonies and on the identification and analysis of the few nonlinear dynamics that are at the very core of self-organized behaviors in both the ants and other societal organizations. We discuss these dynamics in the general framework of stigmergic modeling, based on asynchronous environment-mediated communication protocols, and (pheromone) variables priming coordinated responses of a number of ``cheap' and concurrent agents.
The second half of the thesis is devoted to the study of the application of ACO to problems of online routing in telecommunication networks. This class of problems has been identified in the thesis as the most appropriate for the application of the multi-agent, distributed, and adaptive nature of the ACO architecture.
Four novel ACO algorithms for problems of adaptive routing in telecommunication networks are throughly described. The four algorithms cover a wide spectrum of possible types of network: two of them deliver best-effort traffic in wired IP networks, one is intended for quality-of-service (QoS) traffic in ATM networks, and the fourth is for best-effort traffic in mobile ad hoc networks.
The two algorithms for wired IP networks have been extensively tested by simulation studies and compared to state-of-the-art algorithms for a wide set of reference scenarios. The algorithm for mobile ad hoc networks is still under development, but quite extensive results and comparisons with a popular state-of-the-art algorithm are reported. No results are reported for the algorithm for QoS, which has not been fully tested. The observed experimental performance is excellent, especially for the case of wired IP networks: our algorithms always perform comparably or much better than the state-of-the-art competitors.
In the thesis we try to understand the rationale behind the brilliant performance obtained and the good level of popularity reached by our algorithms. More in general, we discuss the reasons of the general efficacy of the ACO approach for network routing problems compared to the characteristics of more classical approaches. Moving further, we also informally define Ant Colony Routing (ACR), a multi-agent framework explicitly integrating learning components into the ACO's design in order to define a general and in a sense futuristic architecture for autonomic network control.
Most of the material of the thesis comes from a re-elaboration of material co-authored and published in a number of books, journal papers, conference proceedings, and technical reports. The detailed list of references is provided in the Introduction.
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Li, Xiaoli. "A map-growing localization algorithm for ad-hoc sensor networks /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1418044.
Full textFritsch, Serena. "Erweiterung eines adaptiven und interaktiven Systems für die Analyse von Algorithmen zur Datenverwaltung in mobilen Ad-hoc-Netzen." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11730066.
Full textHähner, Jörg. "Consistent data replication in mobile ad hoc networks." [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-29798.
Full textDhillon, Santpal Singh. "Ant routing, searching and topology estimation algorithms for ad hoc networks /." Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9781586039011.
Full textGuo, Song. "Energy-efficient broadcast and multicast algorithms in wireless ad hoc networks." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29331.
Full textAl-Rodhaan, Mznah A. "Traffic locality oriented route discovery algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/899/.
Full textDenson, D. Paul. "Modeling and performance analysis for mobile group localization and formation." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594486491&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textLai, Kai-Ming. "Strategic message forwarding on wireless ad-hoc networks /." View abstract or full-text, 2008. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ECED%202008%20LAI.
Full textYuan, Yin. "Transmission power control in wireless ad-hoc networks /." View abstract or full-text, 2008. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ECED%202008%20YUAN.
Full textLim, Léon. "Gestion de groupe partitionnable dans les réseaux mobiles spontanés." Thesis, Evry, Institut national des télécommunications, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012TELE0032/document.
Full textIn Mobile Ad hoc NETworks or MANETs, partitionable group membership is a basic service for building partition-tolerant applications. None of the existing specifications satisfy the two following antagonistic requirements: 1) it must be strong enough to simplify the design of partition-tolerant distributed applications in partitionable systems; 2) it must be weak enough to be implantable. In this thesis, we propose a solution to partitionable group membership in very dynamic network environment such as MANETs. To this means, we proceed in three steps. First, we develop a dynamic distributed system model that characterises stability in MANETs. Then, we propose a solution to the problem of partitionable group membership by adapting Paxos for such systems. This adatation results in a specification of abortable consensus AC which is composed of an eventual α partition-participants detector ♢PPD and an eventual register per partition ♢RPP. ♢PPD guarantees liveness in a partition even if the partition is not completely stable whereas ♢RPP ensures safety in the same partition. Finally, partitionable group membership is solved by transforming it into a sequence of abortable consensus instances AC. Each of the modules ♢PPD, ♢RPP, AC, and partitionable group membership is implanted and proved. Next, we analyse the performances of ♢PPD by simulation
Miranda, Hugo. "Gossip-Based Data Distribution in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks." Doctoral thesis, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/14290.
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