Evolutionary Network Optimizer - Optimizing communication networks using evolutionary algorithms

This is the repository of the Evolutionary Network Optimizer project, which is developed with the aim of ease the optimization of complex communication networks. The project takes advantages of Evolutionary Computation and the well known Network Simulator (NS3) to produce an optimal network using an adequate amount of time and computing resources. It uses simulations to evaluate solution candidates in evolutionary search heuristics, based on the considered attributes.

Get the source on GitHub: https://github.com/fg-netzwerksicherheit/EvolutionaryNetworkOptimizer

Structure

The whole project consists 4 sub-projects:

• OpenEA: A framework for efficient Evolutionary Computing (https://github.com/fg-netzwerksicherheit/openEA)
• OpenEA-GUI: the Graphical User Interface, which supports network graph and event visualization and real-time EA fitness plotting
• Automated Simulations: the module developed to evaluate network via simulation, which supports to acquire simulation information and configurate network and event manually
• AnyGraph: the module used to import & export network graph file (.p2pnetml, *.graphml) and import event file (.json, *.xml)

The list below shows how these sub-projects are related to each other and which one requires which ones.

• Network Optimizer: OpenEA, Automated Simulations, AnyGraph
• OpenEA-GUI: OpenEA

Please follow the links below to read the installation guide, usage and documentation of each sub-project:

• OpenEA: https://github.com/fg-netzwerksicherheit/openEA
• OpenEA-GUI: within OpenEA-Gui directory

• Automated Simulations: within Simulation directory

  • Go to directory Simulation and type "doxygen Doxyfile" to generate html documents
  • Go to directory Simulation/Doxy-html/html and open index.html

• NetworkOptimizer: within NetworkOptimizer directory

  • Go to directory NetworkOptimizer and type "doxygen Doxyfile" to generate html documents
  • Go to directory NetworkOptimizer/Doxy-html/html and open index.html

• AnyGraph: within AnyGraph directory

Requirements

Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (64-bit version) or equivalent This project is not guaranteed to (but may) work on other *nix-based operating systems.

Authors

• Robin Mueller-Bady
• Bui Quang Minh
• Kiet Quang Huynh Vo
• Chi-Thanh Nguyen
• Nguyen-Quang Pham
• Manuel Schildknecht

Individual contribution is shown in the specific source files. Please see https://netzwerksicherheit.fb2.fh-frankfurt.de/ for further details on the research group.

Copyright and License

Copyright 2017 Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Acknowledgement

This work was supported in the framework of Hessen ModellProjekte, financed with funds of the European Union (European Regional Development Fund - ERDF) and the State of Hessen in the context of the research project "Reactive network Optimization by Using SDN-Technology" (ROBUST) (HA project no. 473/15-15).