Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Güzelyurt, Kıbrıs (Kktc), 14 - 16 Eylül 2009, ss.333-338
The high capacity of fibers used in optical networks, can be divided into many channels, using the WDM technology. Any damage to a fiber causes all the channels routed through this link to be broken, which may result in a serious amount of data loss. As a solution to this problem, the virtual layer can be mapped onto the physical topology, such that, a failure on any physical link does not disconnect the virtual topology. This is known as the survivable virtual topology mapping problem. In this study, our aim is to determine a suitable ant colony optimization algorithm to solve this problem. Our results show that ant colony heuristics perform remarkably well while producing high quality solutions in less than half a minute.