SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UTILIZING VIRTUAL ANTS IN SMALL WORLD INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

摘要

A small world infrastructure network of communication units, a plurality of which are stigmergic-capable nodes that are capable of generating and supporting virtual ants. A virtual ant can carry information relating to a node, such as its identification and sequence information, and can be sent by the node to one or more neighboring nodes to establish, recursively, hierarchical forwarding paths. A virtual ant interacts with a node through alteration of the table entries of the destination node receiving the virtual ant.