A quantum inspired evolutionary algorithm for dynamic multicast routing with network coding

This paper studies and models the multicast routing problem with network coding in dynamic network environment, where computational and bandwidth resources are to be jointly optimized. A quantum inspired evolutionary algorithm (QEA) is developed to address the problem above, where a restart scheme is devised for well adapting QEA for tracing the ever-changing optima in dynamic environment. Experimental results show that the proposed QEA outperforms a number of existing evolutionary algorithms in terms of the best solution obtained.