Future Internet
Future Internet is a general term for research activities on new architectures for the Internet.
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[edit] History
While the technical development of 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,[1] 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.[2]
Research areas that could be seen as components of a future Internet include network management,[3][4][5] [6], 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.
[edit] Activities
While future Internet is often associated with the Global Environment for Network Innovations initiatives of the National Science Foundation (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.[7] Another "clean slate" project hosted at Stanford University, started in 2007 including faculty such as Nick McKeown, David Cheriton and Dan Boneh.[8][9][10]
The AKARI Project is Japan's "architecture design project for new generation network" with implementation expected in 2015.[11]
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.[12] Some projects were funded in 2008, and more in 2011.[13]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Future Internet Socio Economics Working Group
- ^ Future Internet "Shaping Policies for a Digital World: The Seoul Declaration for the Future of the Internet Economy". OECD. 2008. http://www.oecd.org/FutureInternet Future Internet. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ Dagstuhl Seminar on "Management of the Future Internet"
- ^ EMANICS Workshop "Vision and Management of the Future Internet"
- ^ 1st IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future Internet (ManFI 2009), [1]
- ^ UniverSelf project
- ^ "100x100network. 100 × 100 clean slate project". Archived from the original on August 19, 2010. http://web.archive.org/web/20100819222330/http://100x100network.org/. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ "Clean Slate Design for the Internet". Interdisciplinary rsearch program website. Stanford University. http://cleanslate.stanford.edu/. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ David Orenstein (March 14, 2007). "A broad-based team of Stanford researchers aims to overhaul the Internet". Stanford report. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/march14/clean-031407.html. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ Nick McKeown, Bernd Girod (April 18, 2006). "Clean slate design for the Internet". White paper. Archived from the original on September 10, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060910223445/http://cleanslate.stanford.edu/CleanSlateWhitepaperV2.pdf. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ "Architecture Design Project for New Generation Network". National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. http://akari-project.nict.go.jp/eng/index2.htm. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ "FIRE: Future Internet Research and Experimentation". European Community Research and Development Information Service. 2007. http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/fet/comms-fire.htm. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ "FIRE - Future Internet Research & Experimentation". European Community Research and Development Information Service. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
[edit] 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 [2]
- 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) [3]
- Super Janet funded by EPSRC (UK) [4]
- Plataforma tecnologica española de convergencia hacia IF (Spain) [5]
- Internet del Futuro (Spain) [6]
- Ambient Sweden [7]
- Belgium [8]
- Luxembourg [9]
- Italy [10]
- Netherlands [11]
- Ireland http://www.futureinternet.ie
- United Kingdom FISG [12]
- 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 [13]
- Euro-NF / Anticipating the Network of the Future - From Theory to Design http://euronf.org
- Autonomic Internet Project [14]
- Reservoir -Cloud Computing Project [15]
