This volume contains the papers from BIOWIRE 2007, the first in a series of wo- shops on the bio-inspired design of networks, and additional papers contributed from the research area of bio-inspired computing and communication. The workshop took place at the University of Cambridge during April 2-5, 2007 with sponsorship from the US/UK International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Sciences. Its objective was to present, discuss and explore the recent developments in the field of bio-inspired design of networks, with particular regard to wireless networks and the self-organizing properties of biological networks. The workshop was organized by Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge), Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts), Dinesh Verma (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Vasilis Pappas (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Ananthram Swami (ARL), Tom McCutcheon (DSTL) and Pietro Lio (University of Cambridge). The program for BIOWIRE 2007 included 54 speakers covering a diverse range of topics, categorized as follows: 1. Self-organized communication networks in insects 2. Neuronal communications 3. Bio-computing 4. Epidemiology 5. Network theory 6. Wireless and sensorial networks 7. Brain: models of sensorial integration The BIOWIRE workshop focuses on achieving a common ground for knowledge sharing among scientists with expertise in investigating the application domain (e. g. , biological, wireless, data communication and transportation networks) and scientists with relevant expertise in the methodology domain (e. g. , mathematics and statistical physics of networks).

This book describes data centric networking in distributed systems, which relies on content addressing instead of host addressing, thus providing network independence for applications. Recent progress in wireless sensor networks requires such a data-centric approach, where sensors are used to gather high volumes of different data types to feed as contexts to a wide range of applications. Publish/subscribe asynchronous group communication realises the vision of data-centric networking that is particularly important for networks supporting mobile clients over heterogeneous wireless networks. In such networks, client applications prefer to receive specific data, which requires selective data dissemination. Underlying mechanisms such as asynchronous message passing, distributed message filtering and query/subscription management are essential. The book demonstrates solutions for challenging topics ranging from event and query modelling using hypercube, publish/subscribe by context adaptive controlled flooding, to event correlation semantics, providing the design aid for distributed ubiquitous computing systems over heterogeneous networks.