[PDF] Top 20 An Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Network Vulnerability Analysis

... computer network can be represented by a directed graph, called network attack graph ...minimization analysis of network attack graphs is to find a minimum critical set of exploits that ... See full document

... In node positioning, the intensity of the received signal is usually determined by range-based algorithms. It is inevitable that the signal intensity would be disturbed by noises like airflow and multipath. In this case, ... See full document

... theoretical maximum throughput of multicast, it was assumed that coding operations have to be performed at all coding- possible nodes [4]–[7]. This means all nodes which have the potential to perform coding would perform ... See full document

... as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Bee Colony Optimization (BCO) and Bat Algorithm ...(BA). Ant Colony Optimization was stimulated by the nature of ...lony ... See full document

... using ant colony optimization ...the ant colony optimization algorithm has a greater throughput value than the round-robin ...that ant colony ... See full document

... Association rule mining (ARM), is the most important and well researched techniques of data mining. ARM was first introduced in 1993 by Agrawal et al. It aims to extract interesting rules, frequent itemsets, associations ... See full document

... Sensor Network) is a kind of self-organization network system which consists of large number of inexpensive sensor nodes, and its nodes are characterized by a certain sensing ability, computing power and ... See full document

... The algorithm starts by initializing populations of m ants. Each ant is initialized as by assuming a reaction with n genes. A population is initialized by a predefined number of individuals by assigning ... See full document

... routing algorithm for MANETs based on ...proposed algorithm was simulated on the network tool NS2 and was also compared with existing algorithm's ...the Ant Colony based routing ... See full document

... with Ant Colony Optimization - Zhang Nan and Wang Zhe [27] proposed clustering base an algorithm (CIACA) [cluster base improved ant colony algorithm],related to community ... See full document

... With network technology development, Grid Computing satisfies the demand of scientific community’s computing ...the network. A robust multi-objective scheduling algorithm is required to optimize ... See full document

... theater-Cluster Ant Colony Optimization algorithm (IC-ACO) is to extend the network life time in an impenetrable environment, since in a heavily deployed network, it's very ... See full document

... a network of number of tiny sensor ...networks. Ant colony optimization is one of the proposed algorithm in which an improved energy resources are used to minimize the limitations over ... See full document

... Next, to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algo- rithm, its performance is compared with DDRP [31] and SGDD [32] in terms of the average hops, average re- sidual energy, and network life time for different ... See full document

... the ant colony system (ACS), a distributed algorithm that is applied to the traveling salesman problem ...the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) ...onclassical ant ... See full document

... the analysis, the collection and the comparison of results as well as for extension, visualization and experimentation of simulation, which allows us to considerably reduces the time of developing the simulation ... See full document

... The optimization goal of the VNE problem is to sufficiently use the SN resources by selecting an appropriate mapping (or embedding) for each VN request so as to maximize the entire revenue of the ... See full document

... driven method, we assume that ants have sensors to find the path to reach the destination even at the beginning. Something like that where ants smell the food at the very beginning. This approach is a realistic ... See full document

... the algorithm, each ant like ant colony optimization algorithm, based on its experience and performance in the network, dynamic update routing table ...an ant is in ... See full document

... the colony and of the concurrent presence of all the discussed ingredients, and not a property of the single ...The optimization procedure of ACO is explained using an example of which ACO is applied to TSP ... See full document