An Evolvable Network Controller Model for Reconfigurable Network Devices

The concept of Evolvable Hardware has attracted increased attention because it offers adaptive and highly optimized systems. Also there have been some researches toward implementing reconfigurable network devices that can change their architecture while running as a network node. In combination with evolvable hardware concept we can build adaptive and self-optimizing network systems which can autonomously adapt themselves with dynamically changing network conditions by means of evolutionary algorithms. In this paper a new model for a high-performance and flexible implementation of evolvable network controllers is proposed. Modularity of network controllers is used to decrease the complexity of such a system and as a case study we have focused on designing an Evolvable CRC generator module.