A quantum-inspired binary firefly algorithm for QoS multicast routing
by Yassine Meraihi; Dalila Acheli; Amar Ramdane-Cherif; Mohammed Mahseur
International Journal of Metaheuristics (IJMHEUR), Vol. 6, No. 4, 2017

Abstract: The quality of service multicast routing problem (QoSMRP) is one of the main issues for transmission in wireless mesh networks. It is known to be an NP-hard problem, so many heuristic algorithms have been employed to solve this problem. This paper proposes a new quantum-inspired binary firefly algorithm (QIBFA) to solve the QoSMRP. QIBFA is based on the combination of the standard binary firefly algorithm (BFA) with the concept and principles of the quantum evolutionary algorithm (QEA). Its main idea is the introduction of the Q-bit and the quantum operator adopted in the quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm (QEA) into the binary firefly algorithm to avoid the premature convergence, ensure the diversity of the solutions and enhance the performance of the BFA. The simulation results show the efficiency and the superiority of our proposed algorithm compared with other existing algorithms in the literature.

Online publication date: Tue, 03-Oct-2017

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