Faculty Host: Badri Nath

Abstract:

Swarm intelligence refers to complex behaviors that arise from very simple individual behaviors and interactions, which is often observed among social insects such as ants. Although each individual (an ant) has little intelligence and simply follows basic rules using local information obtained from the environment, such as ant's pheromone trail laying and following behavior, (globally) optimized behaviors, such as finding a shortest path, emerge when they work collectively as a group. In this talk, I will present our research on adapting swarm intelligence as a distributed adaptive control mechanism to design multicast routing and topology control protocols for mobile ad hoc networks.