Seminar Biologically-Inspired Networking

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Seminar: Biologically-Inspired Networking (in English)

Description

ESS, S2, 4 ECTS credits, modules III.3.1 and III.3.3, block seminar

Given 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. Similar challenges have been successfully answered by nature as a result of evolution, producing solutions with various desirable properties, such as self-organization, where based on only lower-level interactions and local information a global-level pattern emerges. Therefore, in recents years, more and more approaches to problems in computer networks (including resource-constrained, multi-hop wired and wireless ad hoc/sensor networks, typically deployed on large scale) have successfully adopted solutions from natural systems.

The goal of the seminar is to shed light on biologically-inspired approaches employed in computer networks, based for example on ant colony optimization, task allocation in insects, firefly synchronization, activator-inhibitor systems, artificial immune systems and epidemic spreading. The seminar will provide a broad overview on one hand, while, on the other hand, taking a detailed look at the current developments in the field and their concrete technical implementation. It will be held in English as compact/block seminar: all seminar meetings will be within a two-day block in the first half of the semester. The concrete dates for this will be determined in an initial meeting at the beginning of the semester.

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