Chapter 1 Advances in Natural Computation
1.1 Swarm intelligence
1.2 Simulated annealing
1.3 Mean field annealing
1.4 Quantum annealing
Chapter 2 Overview of Wireless Multi-hop Networks
2.1 Classification of wireless multi-hop networks
2.2 QoS Routing （QoSR） in wireless multi-hop networks
2.3 Online social networks--a special form of wireless multi-hop networks and related works
Chapter 3 Data Forwarding in Opportunistic Networks
3.1 Introduction of opportunistic networks
3.2 The retrogression of routing in opportunistic networks
3.3 Data forwarding in opportunistic networks
3.4 Conclusions
Chapter 4 Swarm Intelligence Based Node-disjoint Multi-path Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
4.1 Introduction
4.2 AMR description
4.3 Simulation and performance analysis
4.4 Conclusions
Chapter 5 Ant Colony Based Multi-path QoS Routing Protocol for MANETs
5.1 Overview of ant based routing protocols in MANETs
5.2 Outline of ALMR
5.3 Protocol description
5.4 Simulation and performance analysis
5.5 Conclusions
Chapter 6 Multi-constrained QoS Routing Based on Simulated Annealing in MANETs
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Related work
6.3 Introduction to simulated annealing
6.4 Scheme description
6.5 Conclusions
Chapter 7 Mean Field Annealing Based Multi-constraints Path Selection in Wireless Mesh Networks
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Related work
7.3 Proposed algorithm
7.4 Scheme description
7.5 Performance evaluation
7.6 Conclusions
Chapter 8 CO-FSR： Cross-layer Optimized Fisheye State Routing for Ad Hoc Networks
8.1 Introduction
8.2 FSR and its drawback
8.3 Enhancements regarding FSR
8.4 Simulation and analysis
8.5 Conclusions
Chapter 9 Optimal Social Trust Path Selection： Toward Representing the Trust Level of Service Providers More Comprehensively
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Related works
9.3 Formulation of the problem
9.4 Algorithm description
9.5 Experimental results
9.6 Conclusions
Chapter 10 Can Friendship Be Counted on for Securing Wireless Ad Hoc Networks？
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Related work
10.3 Core design of novel trust system
10.4 Process of merging trust semiring， decaying model and friendship model
10.5 Attacks and analyses
10.6 Performance analysis
10.7 Conclusions
Chapter 11 The Most TrustworthyPath Selection in Online Social Networks
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Related work
11.3 Algorithm description
11.4 Experimental results
11.5 Conclusions
Chapter 12 Trustworthiest Trustee Node Selection in Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Related works
12.3 Algorithm description
12.4 Experimental results
12.5 Conclusions
Chapter 13 Energy Efficient Multi-constrained Optimal Social Trust Path Selection in Smartphone-based Mobile Social Networks
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Related works
13.3 Algorithm description
13.4 Experimental results
13.5 Conclusions
Chapter 14 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 15 Future Directions