Effects of network delays on swarming in a multi-agent security system
Glenn Fink, A. David McKinnon · 2014
In testing our multi-agent cyber security system, Ant-Based Cyber Defense (ABCD) we have found that pheromone efficacy, swarm formation, and cyber-security properties of a multi-agent system can be affected by non-uniform delay times experienced by the ant agents as they traverse on large-scale, real-world networks. This led to tests where we artificially induced delay on large sections of a network to experiment with swarms under different delay conditions.