A Modified Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Network Coding Resource Minimization.

This paper presents a modified ant colony optimization (ACO) approach for the network coding resource minimization problem. It is featured with several attractive mechanisms specially devised for solving the concerned problem: 1) a multidimensional pheromone maintenance mechanism is put forward to address the issue of pheromone overlapping; 2) problem-specific heuristic information is employed to ...