Symbiotic Communications: Where Marconi Meets Darwin

With the proliferation of wireless applications, electromagnetic (EM) space is becoming more and crowded complex. This makes it a challenging task to accommodate growing number radio systems with limited resources. In this article, by considering EM as ecosystem, leveraging analogy natural ecosystem in biology, novel symbiotic communication (SC) paradigm proposed through which relevant systems, called radios (SRs), form relationship (e.g., mutualistic symbiosis) intelligent resource/service exchange. Radio resources include, for example, spectrum, energy, infrastructure, while typical services are communicating, relaying, computing. The can be realized via either coevolution or synthesis. coevolution, each SR empowered an evolutionary cycle alongside multi-agent learning, synthesis, SRs ingeniously optimize their operating parameters transmission protocols solving multi-objective optimization problem. Promisingly, SC breaks boundary thus providing us fresh perspective on resource management new guidelines design future systems.