2134/3915 Mark S. Withall Mark S. Withall Chris J. Hinde Chris J. Hinde Roger Stone Roger Stone Jason Cooper Jason Cooper Packet transmission optimisation using Genetic Algorithms Loughborough University 2008 Internet applications Genetic algorithms Adaptive control Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified 2008-11-07 10:32:51 Conference contribution https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Packet_transmission_optimisation_using_Genetic_Algorithms/9404201 A Genetic Algorithm (ga) is used to optimise the parameters for a sequence of packets sent over the Internet. Only the parameters that a client machine can change are used and the fitness is based on the delay time returned by the Traceroute program. The ga performance is compared to a fixed packet size with no priority used to assess the status of the network. The ga generally performed to the same level as the control settings but in some cases significant improvements were made.