An analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication, say investigators. Biologists have long suspected that ants base their population-density estimates on the ...

Routing scalability has always been a problem in networking research. Now, computer scientists at UC San Diego (UCSD) have developed a new algorithm to improve the routing efficiency of networks.

The energy costs of IT equipment have become a major concern, leading to a variety of creative ideas about how to keep power use in check. Most of the challenge has been finding ways to make sure that ...