An adaptable transport protocol based on genetic algorithms

In this paper, we present an adaptable protocol, Genetic Algorithm Transport Protocol (GATP) based on Genetic Algorithms (GAs), which evolves and adapts to the network environment to achieve best-effort user-configurable Quality of Services (QoS). The networking environment is an evolutionary playground for data packets that are evolved using a fitness level of QoS achievement. Different fitness functions of weighted, single objectives, and finally multi-objectives are applied to understand the network problem. Experiments are conducted to provide the performance analysis of GATP in an actual network environment. Experimental results also show how this proposed protocol compares with Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).