[MLB-WIRELESS] Article: Self Assembling Networks (and Toaster Ovens)

[Drew]

As seen on BAWUG, the IETF are working on similar things
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/manet-charter.html

John Dalton wrote:

>I sent this to the Sydney list, but it might also be
>of interest to people on this list.
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>Here is an interesting article (lifted from Slashdot):
>
>http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/032603/Network_builds_itself_from_scratch_032603.html
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>In summary, the researchers investigated why ants tend to walk in lines.
>What they discovered was if you take a bunch of random nodes
>and program them to simulate ants walking in lines, the nodes organise
>themselves to form a network with data flowing in a sensible fashion.
>
>As I understand it, ants are analogous to packets and the ground on
>which they walk becomes the network hardware.  As a bonus, the network
>will reorganise itself around a broken link in a similar way to ants
>getting back into line after you pour water on their trail.
>
>Perhaps we could use some of these ideas to route our network?
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>
>On a completely unrelated topic, for the hobbyists out there, here is
>a guy who uses his toaster oven as a surface mount oven:
>http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200006/oven_art.htm
>
>
>Regards
>John
>
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