Biologically-inspired systems: A new direction for large-scale wireless networks

The current approaches to wireless communication protocols and networking design cannot cope with the scalability and other challenges of future pervasive wireless applications. This fact holds true for protocols currently implemented in networking solutions as well as for protocols proposed in the literature. New solutions are needed to address the scalability, security, fault-tolerance and evolutionary requirements of future and envisioned pervasive wireless applications. Many biological systems in nature are observed to have successfully dealt with the host of challenges mentioned above. Biologically-inspired algorithms are new direction to networking designs that hold ample promises for pervasive applications. In this paper, we present some of these solutions and discuss their application to pervasive networking protocols design.