@Article{cmc.2020.09176,
AUTHOR = {Ahmed Y. Hamed, Monagi H. Alkinani, M. R. Hassan},
TITLE = {Ant Colony Optimization for Multi-Objective Multicast Routing},
JOURNAL = {Computers, Materials \& Continua},
VOLUME = {63},
YEAR = {2020},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {1159--1173},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/cmc/v63n3/38868},
ISSN = {1546-2226},
ABSTRACT = {In the distributed networks, many applications send information from a source
node to multiple destination nodes. To support these applications requirements, the paper 
presents a multi-objective algorithm based on ant colonies to construct a multicast tree 
for data transmission in a computer network. The proposed algorithm simultaneously 
optimizes total weight (cost, delay and hop) of the multicast tree. Experimental results 
prove the proposed algorithm outperforms a recently published Multi-objective Multicast 
Algorithm specially designed for solving the multicast routing problem. Also, it is able to 
find a better solution with fast convergence speed and high reliability.},
DOI = {10.32604/cmc.2020.09176}
}