Fruit Flies Making Inroads on Autonomous Computing

Jucius Maximus writes "The configuration of base stations in cell phone networks has always been problematic because you can never predict how many phones will connect to which base station. And sometimes adjacent antennas will use the same frequency leading to dropped calls. Such configuration challenges may have solutions in autonomous computing. An article on C|NET describes how British Telecom is examining the development of fruit flies, hoping that nature has already found the solution to this problem. This technology could also be applied to 'threat-sensing' on computer networks."

Comments

Fly with Implanted Web Server

[Alien54]

Sadly, this (the fly wed server) is no longer online, but the photos are interesting:

http://www.conceptlab.com/fly/

And yes, there is a video (2.2meg QT) and extended wiring diagrams

Look at elevators?

[Openadvocate]

So this is like elevators using Fuzzy logic?. If you everyday work is in a building where the elevators uses Fuzzy Logic, you really notices when you move to a building where they don't. I would have thought that with the rate mobile masts are getting installed everywhere a technology that the article mentions, would already had be created? Now I have no knowledge about how these networks are controlled, but if there is no automated adjustments I can understand why there are so many "dead spots".