Application on self-provisioning of communication network service using fuzzy particle swarm optimization

In this paper, a self-provisioning of communication network service based on a fuzzy particle swarm optimization is proposed to minimize the configuration cost of four layer communication network. An swarm optimization called fuzzy particle swarm optimization (FPSO) is introduced. In this FPSO, the inertia weight of PSO is adaptively determined by a set of fuzzy rule. Also, a cross-mutated operation is presented to drive the solution to escape from local optima where the control parameter of this operation is also governed by a set of fuzzy rule. A performance comparison is given to show the performance of the proposed FPSO on the self-provisioning of communication network service and found that the performance of FPSO is significantly better than that of the existing hybrid PSO methods in a statistical sense.