Biologically-Inspired Network Architecture for Future Networks

An architecture for future networks (often referred to as new-generation networks, or the future Internet), is now actively discussed in a "clean-slate" fashion. That is, the future network architecture could be differently from the current Internet architecture to overcome its problems. We first discuss why such an approach is necessary, and how we can reach a new era of information networks. Then, we introduce our approach towards the new network architecture. It is a biologically-inspired self-organizing network. Its robustness and adaptiveness attained by the bio-inspired approach is quite useful for satisfying the requirement of the future networks.