Co-Evolutionary Agents For Telecommunication Network Restoration

A novel system of simple mobile software agents is described which, in the event of node or span failure in an arbitrary transport network, quickly spread out through reproduction, cooperate with other agents and gather useful restoration information on the way. On encountering their destinations, or other critical situations, they return to the affected nodes in real-time. The algorithm is capable of handling multiple span failures or up to one node failure at a given time and provides ample restoration information within one second.