This is very interesting. You should perhaps reach out to the guys in CloudFlare about this. They're essentially volunteering to make the content-centric Internet a reality.
Regards, Fergal Byrne On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Erik Blas <[email protected]> wrote: > This is something some of us were jamming on during the hackathon event. > I've been chewing on this idea since, and have been hung up on how I'd > setup the experiments, but didn't even consider the idea of self > organization! > > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Rik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to check the NuPIC community's interest in researching the >> use of HTM for 'intelligent' networking -- self-organizing networks that >> autonomously learn and optimize routing behavior by analyzing and >> predicting traffic flow patterns and as such are able adapt to >> fast-changing topologies. This is both on the physical/data layer >> (LANs/SDN, mobile ad-hoc, IP/internet scale) as well as the >> application/content layer, e.g. peer-to-peer/overlay networks, CDNs, more >> speculative things like multi-agent systems. >> >> In the presence of a feedback mechanism at the routing level, routers >> could inspect properties of the data being routed and correlate it with the >> success or failure of routing decisions -- i.e. whether and which way to >> forward data -- and as such optimize the routing behavior on an ongoing >> basis, adapting to changing usage patterns of where data originates and >> where it is consumed. As such existing networks can be improved for higher >> throughput on the backbone and higher 'SNR' at the endpoints. An assembly >> of such learning routers could even self-organize a network from scratch >> starting with gossip and opportunistic forwarding and building from there. >> >> In particular, the idea of content-centric networking -- a hypothetical >> general-purpose internet-scale store-and-forward mechanism, promoted >> here<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM>, >> that seeks to logically detach content items from any particular physical >> location and instead constantly rearrange their spread over the 'net for >> optimal reach by an ever-fluctuating set of consumers and producers -- may >> turn out to be feasible with HTM-like learning mechanisms. >> >> As an experiment, HTMs located at each network node could build and >> evolve a world model of all content passing through the node by forming SDR >> representations of its atomic constituents and higher-level beliefs about >> the nature of the content seen. Some beliefs would overlap with those of >> neighboring HTM-based nodes, making them a preferred choice of forwarding >> newly arriving content of the same nature that way. What large-scale >> phenomena would emerge from this? >> >> Jeff mentioned "uber-HTMs" in some of his talks without going into >> specifics -- might this be along those lines? >> >> Cheers >> >> Rik >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nupic mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > > -- Fergal Byrne ExamSupport/StudyHub [email protected] http://www.examsupport.ie Dublin in Bits [email protected] http://www.inbits.com +353 83 4214179 Formerly of Adnet [email protected] http://www.adnet.ie
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