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Biology-inspired networking

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Researchers have developed a new networking algorithm, modeled after the neurological development of the fruit fly, to help distributed networks self-organize more efficiently.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 6
June 2011
134 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1953122
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Published: 01 June 2011
Published in CACM Volume 54, Issue 6

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