Special Issue On Bio-inspired Computing And Communication In Wireless Ad Hoc And Sensor Networks

摘要

A wide spectrum of applications and services is currently being developed and designed to be built on top of various heterogeneous and significantly challenging network architectures such as wireless mesh networks, mobile ad hoc networks, and wireless sensor and actor networks. These challenging communication architectures are mainly characterized by heterogeneous and resource-constrained nodes, restricted communication channels, highly dynamic environments, lack of any fixed infrastructure, and large scale network deployments that strongly vary in their density. Such features and challenges, in turn, mandate intelligent, adaptive, autonomic, coordinated, self-organizing, and efficient processing, as well as novel communication approaches to handle the complexity of these ambitious wireless systems.rnThe turn to nature has brought us many unforeseen great concepts. Natural biological systems intrinsically possess and exploit similar features by providing elegant and extremely efficient solutions for the challenges and tasks faced in their natural operation. It is of extreme importance to bridge the communication technologies with biological sciences and capture the analogy between these two distinct disciplines. To this end, this special issue is dedicated to capture the state-of-the-art and the recent advances in the newly emerging area of biologically inspired computing and communication in heterogeneous wireless architectures such as wireless mesh networks, mobile ad hoc networks, and wireless sensor and actor networks.