Title:
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UTILIZING VIRTUAL ANTS IN SMALL WORLD INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2005036803
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A small world infrastructure network of communication units, a plurality of which are stigmergic-capable nodes that are capable of generating and supporting virtual ants. A virtual ant can carry information relating to a node, such as its identification and sequence information, and can be sent by the node to one or more neighboring nodes to establish, recursively, hierarchical forwarding paths. A virtual ant interacts with a node through alteration of the table entries of the destination node receiving the virtual ant.
Inventors:
LOA KANCHEI (US)
SUGINO MICHAEL (US)
SUGINO MICHAEL (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2004/033291
Publication Date:
February 02, 2006
Filing Date:
October 08, 2004
Export Citation:
Assignee:
LOA KANCHEI (US)
SUGINO MICHAEL (US)
SUGINO MICHAEL (US)
International Classes:
H04L12/28; H04L; (IPC1-7): H04L12/28
Foreign References:
| US20020145975A1 | 2002-10-10 |
Other References:
KWANG ET AL: "Ant Colony Optimization for Routing and Load-Balancing", IEEE SYSTEMS AND HUMANS, vol. 33, no. 5, September 2003 (2003-09-01), pages 560 - 572, XP002998029
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