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2010 | Book

A Brief History of the Internet Read chapter Read first chapter

New Network Architectures

The Path to the Future Internet

Editor: Tania Tronco

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Book Series : Studies in Computational Intelligence

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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About this book

"Future Internet" is a worldwide hot topic. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for business development and social interactions. However, the immense growth of the Internet has resulted in additional stresses on its architecture, resulting in a network difficult to monitor, understand, and manage due to its huge scale in terms of connected devices and actors (end users, content providers, equipment vendors, etc). This book presents and discusses the ongoing initiatives and experimental facilities for the creation of new Future Internet Architectures using alternative approaches like Clean Slate and Incremental improvements: It considers several possible internet network use scenarios that include seamless mobility, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, internet of things and new paradigms like content and user centric networks.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
A Brief History of the Internet
Abstract
This chapter introduces a brief history review of Internet with focus on its original conception. It’s important to remember such initial ideas because they were the basis of Internet architecture, they are still at the core of today’s Internet and they can be helpful to rethink new design requirements nowadays. Hence, we start by the initial packet-based network protocols and their evolution to TCP/IP.
Tania Regina Tronco
Principles of Internet Architecture
Abstract
This chapter reviews the original Internet architecture with special focus on its original requirements and principles. The motivation behind this “flash-back” is that the Internet architecture is evolving fast and understanding its original design principles provides a context to study the new architectural design challenges necessary nowadays.
Tania Regina Tronco
Evolution of Internet Architecture
Abstract
The Internet architecture has evolved along several dimensions since its original conception and still is in continuous evolution. Extensions to the IP original architecture have been incrementally proposed since the seventies in order to have specific requirements. This chapter surveys the main changes following a chronological order.
Tania Regina Tronco
Scenarios of Evolution for a Future Internet Architecture
Abstract
This chapter describes three scenarios for a future Internet architecture: the user-centric, the object-centric and the content-centric. These scenarios are neither “different” nor “mutually exclusive” and they contain some predictions about the network usage evolution in our diary life and to do business. As an important part of the research on new architectures for the Future Internet, these scenarios are characterized by their network’s attributes and exemplified with some use cases. The identification of the attributes is one step toward the new Internet architecture requirements. During the research, some key convergence aspects among the scenarios were identified as well some specific characteristics of each one.
Tania Regina Tronco, Takashi Tome, Christian E. Rothenberg, Marco A. Ongarelli, A. C. Bordeaux Rego
Future Network Architectures: Technological Challenges and Trends
Abstract
The Internet became an extraordinary artifact for information exchanging, and it is now being considered a strategic infrastructure even for countries development. However, its success has fueled an upward spiral of new applications, which require increasingly intensive use of its capabilities, putting a lot of pressure on a design originally drawn for a scenario remarkably different from the current one. Concerned with actual Internet evolution and its limitations towards a future global information infrastructure, many research initiatives started to reinvent or rethink Internet, so it can fully assume the role we are assigning to it. This text discusses technological requirements, challenges and trends towards future network architectures. It covers latest new Internet design approaches and their main innovations.
Antônio Marcos Alberti
New Generation Internet Architectures: Recent and Ongoing Projects
Abstract
New generation Internet architectures projects are popping up everywhere with new designs proposals and protocols. It is time to rethink the Internet architecture and reengineering it to address the current and future requirements. This text survey recent and ongoing projects focusing on three driving scenarios for the future Internet: object-centric, content-centric and user-centric. An overview about the future Internet research activities in U.S., Europe, Japan and Brazil is also presented.
Tania Regina Tronco, Takashi Tome, Christian E. Rothenberg, Antonio Marcos Alberti
OneLab: An Open Federated Facility for Experimentally Driven Future Internet Research
Abstract
Several initiatives worldwide are seeking to build an open, generalpurpose, and sustainable large-scale shared experimental facility to foster the emergence of the Future Internet. This objective is ambitious as it calls for the setting up of testbeds to study solutions yet to be designed. Furthermore, any proposed new architecture must be accompanied by a transition scenario to overcome the significant obstacles that will lie in the path to its eventual adoption. The OneLab experimental facility is a leading prototype for a flexible federation of testbeds that is open to the current Internet. OneLab has pioneered the concept of testbed federation, providing a federation model that has been proven through a durable interconnection between its flagship testbed PlanetLab Europe (PLE) and the global PlanetLab infrastructure, mutualising over five hundred sites around the world. OneLab is further developing an understanding of what it means for autonomous organizations operating heterogeneous testbeds to federate their computation, storage, and network resources, including defining terminology, establishing universal design principles, and identifying candidate federation strategies
Serge Fdida, Timur Friedman, Thierry Parmentelat
RNP Experiences and Expectations in Future Internet Research and Development
Abstract
RNP is Brazil’s NREN (National Research and Education Network), fully supported by the federal government to provide advanced network services to the higher education and research community. RNP has operated its own IP network since 1992, and has continually renewed its technology since then. This chapter reports on the present state of RNP production infrastructure, including expectations for 2010. Additionally, a number of different Brazilian network testbed initiatives are presented, as well activities now being directed to Future Internet research and development.
Michael Stanton
Description of Network Research Enablers on the Example of OpenFlow
Abstract
This chapter describes OpenFlow, a specification developed by a research group at Stanford University that is proposed to be implemented by commercial switches and routers and would allow remote control of their forwarding behavior. It is aimed at providing researchers with an inexpensive and flexible platform to experiment with new network protocols on production-scale traffic. OpenFlow is further compared to two other projects that aim to enable network research, but differ totally in approach: the PlanetLab and the eXtensible Open Router Project (XORP). Finally, the NOX network operating system is described as an example for a project using OpenFlow’s successful network hardware abstraction concept to implement a larger network management system.
Julius Werner
Re-architected Cloud Data Center Networks and Their Impact on the Future Internet
Abstract
Large-scale Internet data centers (DC) are empowering the new era of cloud computing, a still evolving paradigm that promises infinite capacity, no up-front commitment and pay-as-you-go service models. Ongoing research towards providing low-cost powerful utility computing facilities includes large-scale (geo)-distributed application programming, innovation in the infrastructure (e.g. energy management, packing), and re-thinking how to interconnect thousands of commodity PCs. In this chapter, we focus on the latter and review developments that are taken place in architecting data center networks (DCN) to meet the requirements of the cloud. Finally, we speculate on the potential impacts of such utility computing developments in shaping the future Internet by driving incentives of adoption of new protocols and architectural changes.
Christian Esteve Rothenberg
Improving the Scalability of Internet Routing
Abstract
This chapter explores a scalability problem in Internet routing as well as potential solutions. The reader will understand why routing scalability on the Internet is worth improving, and what benefits and limitations existing solution proposals have.
Christian Vogt
Delivering Building Blocks for Internet of Services: Trust, Security, Privacy and Dependability
Abstract
One of the main pillars of European Future Internet strategy, so called Internet of Services, has been the central topic in European Technology Platform known as NESSI. The service centric view of Future Internet is also changing the way IT infrastructure and applications will be managed and delivered. In this context, trust, security, privacy and dependability considerations are playing major role when it comes to Internet of Service building blocks. While loosely coupled and globally distributed services are becoming norm for business process implementation and emerging business models, control processes and infrastructures are also expected to adapt to this environment. In addition, requirements for integrated compliance management and near real time reaction to policy violations are introducing new motivations and challenges for researchers. Managing assurance, security and trust for services, a NESSI strategic project, presents comprehensive solution to the problems posed by these challenges.
Aljosa Pasic
ITU Focus Group on Future Networks
Abstract
Next Generation Networks (NGN) is envisaged to “substitute” all telecommunication network infrastructure for a packet IP-based concept in the near future. However, is this NGN infrastructure capable to support all future applications, especially those that are highly dependent on quality, reliability and speed? To evaluate this, the standardization sector of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-T) has started studies related to the Future of Networks, that is, networks beyond NGN.
Nilo Pasquali, Abraão B. Silva
Key Issues on Future Internet
Abstract
The Internet has changed the way people live and interact with others. Everyday, an ever-increasing number of activities can be conducted through a myriad of Internet-connected devices. It is possible to foresee a Future Internet environment centered on users, where a variety of devices benefit from ubiquitous connectivity to augment every aspect of people’s life. An incredible amount of applications will be created in a user-driven approach to provide data and services in a user centric way.  These applications and services could be sold and used by other users to create their own new applications producing new information and services in an amazing speed. This scenario has far-reaching technological, economical, social and political implications. This chapter presents the main trends and challenges to be faced towards a more ubiquitous, interactive and user-centered Future Internet.
Tereza Cristina Melo de Brito Carvalho, Charles Christian Miers, Cristina Klippel Dominicini, Fernando Frota Redígolo
Challenges for the Brazilian Green and Yellow Internet
Abstract
This chapter describes the challenges for designing a new generation network architecture for Brazil. One that not only considers the introduction of the new technological breakthroughs, though important, but also develops scenarios for their deployment, benefiting the remote and poorer regions of Brazil, often forgotten from major development initiatives. The next Yellow and Green Internet (YGI) represents a special opportunity to ensure that our communities do not miss a unique chance to adapt the next Internet to some of the harsh realities of a large part of the Brazilian realities including regions and communities where communications remain almost non-existent and isolation has reigned for considerable time.
Djamel F. H. Sadok, Judith Kelner, Joseane Fidalgo
Backmatter
Metadata
Title
New Network Architectures
Editor
Tania Tronco
Copyright Year
2010
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Electronic ISBN
978-3-642-13247-6
Print ISBN
978-3-642-13246-9
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13247-6