Future Internet
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Future Internet is a general term for research activities on new architectures for the Internet
.
has been an extensive research topic from the beginning, an increased public awareness of several critical shortcomings in terms of performance, reliability, scalability, security and many other categories including societal, economical and business aspects, has led to Future Internet research efforts.
The time horizon of future Internet studies is typically long term, taking several years before significant deployments take place.
Approaches towards a future Internet range from small, incremental evolutionary steps to complete redesigns (clean slate) and architecture principles, where the applied technologies shall not be limited by existing standards or paradigms such as client server networking, which, for example, might evolve into co-operative peer structures. The fact that an IP address denotes both the identifier as well as the locator of an end system, sometimes referred to as semantic overload
, is an example of a conceptual shortcoming of the Internet
protocol architecture. The clean slate type of approaches are based on the experience that supplementary or late additions to an original and established design are limited in their acceptance and introduction. Technical examples for evolutionary approaches include supplements to existing Internet technology, such as MobileIP, IPSec, DiffServ, HIP, RSerPool
, SCTP, LISP
, Shim6 or IPv6.
Non-technical aspects of a future Internet span large areas such as socio-economics, business and environmental issues. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
held a conference called "Shaping Policies for a Digital World" in 2008. It proposed activities such as publishing recommendations for the future of the Internet economy.
Research areas that could be seen as components of a future Internet include network management
, , network virtualization
, and treating any kind of information as objects, independent of their storage or location.
Elements of cloud computing
blended into the notion of future Internet, leading to the concept of cloud networking.
(NSF), several other international research programmes have adopted this term.
A 100x100 Clean Slate project ran from about 2003 through 2005. Its name comes from estimating 100 Mbit/s connectivity to about 100 million homes in the US.
Another "clean slate" project hosted at Stanford University
, started in 2007 including faculty such as Nick McKeown
, David Cheriton
and Dan Boneh
.
The AKARI Project
is Japan
's "architecture design project for new generation network" with implementation expected in 2015.
Future Internet Research and Experimentation
is a research program funded by the European Union to foster research on the future developments of Internet technology and services.
Two meetings were held in 2007.
Some projects were funded in 2008, and more in 2011.
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
.
History
While the technical development of the InternetInternet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
has been an extensive research topic from the beginning, an increased public awareness of several critical shortcomings in terms of performance, reliability, scalability, security and many other categories including societal, economical and business aspects, has led to Future Internet research efforts.
The time horizon of future Internet studies is typically long term, taking several years before significant deployments take place.
Approaches towards a future Internet range from small, incremental evolutionary steps to complete redesigns (clean slate) and architecture principles, where the applied technologies shall not be limited by existing standards or paradigms such as client server networking, which, for example, might evolve into co-operative peer structures. The fact that an IP address denotes both the identifier as well as the locator of an end system, sometimes referred to as semantic overload
Semantic overload
In linguistics, semantic overload is a property of terms which have more than one meaning and are used in ways that convey a meaning which draws on its divergent constituent concepts. Overloading is related to the psychological concept of information overload, and the computer science concept of an...
, is an example of a conceptual shortcoming of the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
protocol architecture. The clean slate type of approaches are based on the experience that supplementary or late additions to an original and established design are limited in their acceptance and introduction. Technical examples for evolutionary approaches include supplements to existing Internet technology, such as MobileIP, IPSec, DiffServ, HIP, RSerPool
Reliable server pooling
Reliable server pooling is a computer protocol framework for management of and access to multiple, coordinated servers...
, SCTP, LISP
Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol
LISP is a "map-and-encapsulate" protocol which is currently developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force LISP Working Group. The basic idea behind the separation is that the Internet architecture combines two functions, routing locators and identifiers in one number space: the IP address...
, Shim6 or IPv6.
Non-technical aspects of a future Internet span large areas such as socio-economics, business and environmental issues. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an international economic organisation of 34 countries founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade...
held a conference called "Shaping Policies for a Digital World" in 2008. It proposed activities such as publishing recommendations for the future of the Internet economy.
Research areas that could be seen as components of a future Internet include network management
Network management
Network management refers to the activities, methods, procedures, and tools that pertain to the operation, administration, maintenance, and provisioning of networked systems....
, , network virtualization
Network virtualization
In computing, Network Virtualization is the process of combining hardware and software network resources and network functionality into a single, software-based administrative entity, a virtual network...
, and treating any kind of information as objects, independent of their storage or location.
Elements of cloud computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
blended into the notion of future Internet, leading to the concept of cloud networking.
Activities
While future Internet is often associated with the Global Environment for Network Innovations initiatives of the National Science FoundationNational Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
(NSF), several other international research programmes have adopted this term.
A 100x100 Clean Slate project ran from about 2003 through 2005. Its name comes from estimating 100 Mbit/s connectivity to about 100 million homes in the US.
Another "clean slate" project hosted at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, started in 2007 including faculty such as Nick McKeown
Nick McKeown
Nicholas William McKeown, better known as Nick McKeown, is an English-American expert in computer networking. His career includes both education and starting companies in Silicon Valley.-Biography:Nick McKeown was born April 7, 1963 in Bedford, England....
, David Cheriton
David Cheriton
David Ross Cheriton is a Canadian-born computer science professor at Stanford University who has investments in technology companies...
and Dan Boneh
Dan Boneh
Dan Boneh is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering atStanford University. He is a well-known researcher in the areas of applied cryptographyand computer security.-Education:...
.
The AKARI Project
AKARI Project
The AKARI Architecture Design Project is a large project for designing New Generation Network Architecture and is supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Japan. The name comes from the Japanese word Akari, which means "A small light "...
is Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
's "architecture design project for new generation network" with implementation expected in 2015.
Future Internet Research and Experimentation
Future Internet Research and Experimentation
Future Internet Research and Experimentation is a program funded by the European Union with the objective to do research on the internet, its prospects, and its future.-External links:**...
is a research program funded by the European Union to foster research on the future developments of Internet technology and services.
Two meetings were held in 2007.
Some projects were funded in 2008, and more in 2011.
Further reading
- Roscoe T. The end of Internet architecture. In: Proceedings of the fifth workshop on hot topics in networks (HotNets-V), Irvine, USA, November 2006.
- M. Handley: Why the Internet only just works BT Technology Journal, Vol 24, No 3, July 2006.
- MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Newarch project: Future-generation internet architecture. 2003. Information available at: http://www.isi.edu/newarch/
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Assurable global networking. 2006. Information available at: http://www.darpa.mil/sto/solicitations/AGN/index.html
- National Science Foundation. Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS). 2006. Information available at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07507/nsf07507.htm
- Tafazolli R. Post-ip working group. Presentation at the second general assembly of the eMobility European technology platform, November 2006. Information available at http://www.emobility.eu.org/GA2/GA2-intro.html
- VINI Consortium. VINI Homepage. 2006. Information available at http://www.vini-veritas.net/
- A. Galis, H. Abramowicz, M. Brunner, D. Raz, P.R. Chemouil, J. Butler, C. Polychronopoulos, S. Clayman, H. de Meer, T. Coupaye, A. Pras, K. Sabnani, P. Massonet, S. Naqvi “Management and Service-aware Networking Architectures (MANA) for Future Internet - Position Paper: System Functions, Capabilities and Requirements” -Future Internet Assembly http://www.future-internet.eu/fileadmin/documents/prague_documents/MANA_PositionPaper-Final.pdf and Invited paper IEEE 2009 Fourth International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom09?) 26-28 August 2009, Xi'an, China; http://www.chinacom.org/2009/index.html
- M. R. Khondoker, B. Reuther, D. Schwerdel, A. Siddiqui and P. Mueller “Describing and Selecting Communication Services in a Service Oriented Network Architecture” in the proceedings of the ITU-T Kaleidoscope event, Pune, India, 13-15 Dec 2010
- Domingue, J., Galis, A., Gavras, A., Zahariadis, T., Lambert, D., Cleary, F., Daras, P., Krco, S., Müller, H., Li, M.-S., Schaffers, H., Lotz, V., Alvarez, F., Stiller, B., Karnouskos, S., Avessta, S., Nilsson, M. (Eds.) – “The Future Internet - Future Internet Assembly 2011: Achievements and Technological Promises” - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6656, 465 pp, ISBN 978-3-642-20897-3, 4th May 2011- Springer http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/book/978-3-642-20897-3
External links
- European Future Internet Portal
- FIA - Future Internet Assembly
- EU ICT FP7 Future Internet projects
- FIND - Future Internet network design
- GENI - Global Environment for Network Innovations
- TARIFA - The Atomic Redesign of the Internet Future Architecture
- ITU-T Study Group 13 (SG13) on Future Networks including mobile and NGN, focus group FG-FN, Q21/13 http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/fn/Pages/default.aspx
- ITFAN Inter-Agency Task Force for Advanced Networking (USA)
- it839/u-it839 (Korea)
- it839/u-it839 and FIF (Future Internet Forum) funded by MIC (Korea) http://www.fif.kr/
- NICTA (Australia)
- ANR (France)
- ICT SHOK (Finland) http://www.futureinternet.fi
- Super Janet funded by EPSRC (UK) http://webarchive.ja.net/index.html
- Plataforma tecnologica española de convergencia hacia IF (Spain) http://www.idi.aetic.es/esInternet/
- Internet del Futuro (Spain) http://www.internetdelfuturo.es
- Ambient Sweden http://www.vinnova.se/upload/EPiStorePDF/AmbientSweden.pdf
- Belgium http://www.ibbt.be
- Luxembourg http://www.ipv6council.lu
- Italy http://cit.fbk.eu/future_internet
- Netherlands http://www.futureinternet.ez.nl
- Ireland http://www.futureinternet.ie
- United Kingdom FISG https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/future-internet-uk-strategy-group/overview
- Finland - Finnish ICT SHOK research programme [www.futureinternet.fi]
- Spain - Internet del Futuro [www.internetdelfuturo.es]
- Germany - G-Lab
- France - Groupe de Reflexion Internet du Futur - GRIF [ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fire/firelaunch-paris-100908-4-2_en.pdf]
- Euro-NF / Anticipating the Network of the Future - From Theory to Design http://euronf.org
- Autonomic Internet Project http://ist-autoi.eu/autoi/index.php
- Reservoir -Cloud Computing Project http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/