Table 1 Baseline parameter.

From: Cyber resilient framework with energy efficient swarm routing and ensemble threat detection in fog assisted wireless sensor networks

Parameter

value

description

n_ants

20

Total number of ants used in each iteration

n_best

10

Number of top performing ants whose paths update pheromone

n_itera tions

30

Total number of iterations the algorithm runs

Decay(rho)

0.05

Pheromone evaporation rate after each iteration

alpha

1

Importance of pheromone in path s election

beta

2

Importance of heuristic (typically 1/distance) in path selection