Nature-Inspired Networking

"e;Nature-inspired"e; includes, roughly speaking, "e;bio-inspired"e;+"e;physical-inspired"e;+"e;social-inspired"e;+ and so on. This book contains highly original contributions about how nature is going to shape networking systems of the future. Hence, it focuses on rigorous approaches and cutting-edge solutions, which encompass three classes of major methods: 1) Those that take inspiration from nature for the development of novel problem solving techniques; 2) Those that are based on the use of networks to synthesize natural phenomena; and 3) Those that employ natural materials to compute or communicate.