Recent progress in ant algorithms for fixed telecommunication networks: a review

The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of Swarm Intelligence based methods for fixed packet-switched telecommunication networks. Such methods, thank to their distributed form and self-organizing dynamics, are very well applicable to problems encountered in a network environment. we believe to show the motivation for using learning methods to solve the routing problem and moreover to create a basis for researchers who act in the field of Swarm Intelligence.