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September - 2012 - issue > In Focus
Ants communicate similarly to internet protocol
SI Team
The computer science professor of Indian origin from Stanford University, Balaji Prabhakar, agreed that it was almost exactly the same as how internet protocols figured. The ants were able to specifically decipher how much bandwidth was needed to transfer info similar to transferring a file using HTML, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Gordon's research was recently published in the PLoS Computational Biology. According to the study, it was found that the rate at which harvester ants leave the nest to search for food corresponds to the amount of food available.
The ants then venture out individually and do not return to the nest until they find food. The more food there is, the faster the ants return and the more ants leave the nest to retrieve it. If there is less food available, the ants return empty handed and the foraging slows or stops. This process is almost identical to how the internet manages data congestion using a process called Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP.
Professor Gordon and Prabhakar are now calling the process "the Anternet".
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