Biologically Inspired Models for Sensor Network Design

This paper discusses the purposes, requirements and challenges of creating pervasive

networks of devices that have sensor technology and embedded computation. The

demands placed on these sensor networks suggest that they have to function in a similar

way to self-organised biological systems so concepts can be taken from them to design

appropriate models for how sensor networks could work. This paper focuses on the

reasons why this is possible and gives examples of previously studied biological systems