SWAN: A Swarm Intelligence Based Framework for Network Management of IP Networks

This research paper presents a swarm-intelligence based architecture for network management of IP networks which attempts to alleviate the shortcomings of traditional network management software like scalability, performance, accuracy, single point-of-failure and extensibility. The proposed architecture draws inspiration from the management of beehives by worker bees and the queen bee in the animal kingdom, utilizing and extending that model to perform network management in a more effective and efficient manner.