Bio-inspired telecommunications

• Authors: Muddassar Farooq
• Venue: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference Companion on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: Late Breaking Papers
• Year: 2009

The rapid advances in computing and transmission technologies are giving impetus to the large-scale deployment of interconnected systems for communication and transport of data, voice, video and resources. The global Internet, and cellular, satellite, and Wi-Fi networks, as well as power and logistic networks, just to mention a few remarkable examples, are at the same time ubiquitous and at the very heart of the functioning and success of modern societies. On the other hand, all these networks are increasingly heterogeneous, complex, and dynamic, such as they present a number of challenging issues concerning their analysis and design, management and control, robustness and security. Biological systems show a number of properties, such as self-organization, adaptivity, scalability, robustness, autonomy, locality of interactions, distribution, which are highly desirable to deal with the growing complexity of current and future networks. Therefore, in recent years a growing number of effective solutions for problems related to networked systems have been proposed by taking inspiration from the observation of natural systems and processes such as natural selection, insect societies, immune systems, cultural systems, collective behaviors of groups of animals/cells, etc. The aim of the tutorial is to provide the cutting edge research on Bio/Nature inspired approaches to network-related problems. The tutorial will also focus on protocol engineering in order to introduce different frameworks that have been developed to realize such Bio/Nature inspired protocols inside the network stack of the Linux kernel. The presentation will also introduce a comprehensive performance evaluation framework that is crucial for getting an insight into the behavior of a Bio/Nature inspired routing algorithm over wide operational landscape of a real network. The designers of the routing protocols can use it to verify their Linux model by comparing important performance values obtained from Linux model with the simulation model. The presentation will also introduce a novel testing framework for MANETs to compare and verify the results of MANET routing protocol in real world MANETs. Last but not least tutorial will also introduce security threats that a designer has to be aware of while deploying such protocols in real world fixed and MANETS. An overview of overview of "Bio-inspired routing algorithms" for sensor networks will also be provided. The tutorial would also focus on "Formal modeling of Bio-inspired algorithms". Towards the end, a brief introduction of "Bio-inspired Security Solutions for Enterprise Security" will be introduced. We believe that the tutorial will be instrumental in highlighting the potential of Bio/Nature inspired protocols in real world networks. The tutorial is intended for telecommunication managers, protocol developers, network engineers, network software developers and optimization researchers and graduate students who want to work in non-linear real time dynamic problems. For references following published material would be helpful: 1. Bee-Inspired Protocol Engineering: From Nature to Networks, Natural Computing Series, Springer, December, 2008. 2. Book Chapter -- Routing Protocols for Next-Generation Networks Inspired by Collective Behaviors of Insect Societies: An Overview, Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and Applications, Natural Computing Series, Springer, 2008.