"Recent advances and applications of metaheuristics to optimization
problems in telecommunications and computer communications"

"Recent years have witnessed algorithmic developments and huge advances in
computer technology and communication networks, entailing the solution of hard
optimization problems in areas such as network design and routing, protocol
optimization, and traffic control.
Metaheuristics are general high-level procedures that coordinate simple
heuristics and rules to find good approximate solutions
to computationally difficult combinatorial optimization problems.
They are among the most effective solution strategies for solving discrete
optimization problems in practice and have been applied to a very large variety
of problems in telecommunications, computer communications, and network design
and routing.
We review the main principles and templates associated with some of the
most widely used metaheuristics.
An account of successful applications of  metaheuristics to optimization
problems in telecommunications, computer communications, wireless networks,
network design and routing is presented."