A taxonomy of biologically inspired research in computer networking

Computer Networks

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 901-916

  Meisel, Michael ^a   Pappas, Vasileios ^b   Zhang, Lixia ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial immune systems; Bio inspired networking; Emergence; Epidemic routing; Intrusion detection; Self organization; Social insect routing; Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM; BIO-INSPIRED NETWORKING; EMERGENCE; EPIDEMIC ROUTING; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL INSECTS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; IMMUNOLOGY; INTERNET; RESEARCH; TAXONOMIES;

INTRUSION DETECTION;

EID: 77949656755     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2009.08.022     Document Type: Article

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