Biologically inspired networking: A solution over the challenges of ordinary networking

Abstract

The steadily growing speed of technological development, computer networks are becoming increasingly complex. At the same time, they must fulfill ever higher requirements in terms of performance, scale, robustness etc. while minimizing their use of resources and adapting to dynamics. The communication between network embedded systems has become a major research domain in the communication network area. Wireless sensor network (WSN) and sensor/actuator network (SANET) build of huge amounts of interacting nodes build the basis for this research. From very long time, nature and biology have inspired new technologies. In computer networking and specifically wireless networks, this field of bio-inspired networking is new and becomes very popular with the emergent of new types of networks with intelligent and autonomous mobiles and/or base stations. Bio Inspired networking has fostered new developments in networking, especially in the most challenging domains such as handling large scale networks, their dynamic nature, resource constraints, heterogeneity, unattended operation, and robustness.