Guest editorial bio-inspired networking

Falko Dressler, Tatsuya Suda, Iacopo Carreras, Jon Crowcroft, Masayuki Murata
2010 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications  
munication is addressed as one of the most promising paradigms for nanonetworks. The objective of this paper is the development of a physical channel model for molecular communication. The nanonetwork physical channel model is studied as the composition of three subsequent modules, namely, the transmitter, the signal propagation and the receiver. In the paper "A New NanoNetwork Architecture using Flagellated Bacteria and Catalytic Nanomotors," molecular communication is investigated, where the
more » ... nformation is encoded as molecules that are transported between nano-scale devices within different distances. Two new communication techniques, flagellated bacteria and catalytic nanomotors, are proposed to cover medium range communication. Both techniques are based on the transport of DNA encoded information between emitters and receivers by means of a physical carrier. We are content that the selected papers highlight some of the best and most innovative ideas in the upcoming field of bio-inspired networking. They can be seen as excellent starting points for future research in this emerging area in networking.
doi:10.1109/jsac.2010.100501 fatcat:n6cipu2ed5aghlvzm7ju7uyzcu