Future Internet

The term " Future Internet " ( engl. future = ' future '), various national and international research initiatives are summarized trying to develop a Future Internet.

Although the technical development of the Internet already constituted a research topic from the beginning, several deficiencies, inter alia, in the areas of performance, reliability, scalability, security, and other categories, especially in social and economic terms, more and more obvious, so that since about were the mid-2000s many " Future Internet " research initiatives founded. In particular, new approaches are being pursued, for example, better support of mobility, quality of service ( engl. Quality of Service) and security from the outset in the design of a new network architecture involve.

Due to the variety of technologies used in the Internet the related research topics are widely held. In addition, different approaches for a Future Internet range from small, incremental and evolutionary steps (English evolutionary approach ) to a complete redesign (English revolutionary approach or even clean- slate design) with architectural principles, in which the technologies used are not due to existing standards or dominant paradigms ( such as the client-server model ) are limited. Such architecture elle restriction is for example the dual function of today's IP addresses is: An IP address identifies both a device connected to the Internet end system as well as the place where the system is connected, that is, it is identifier and locator in one unit. This overloaded semantics produces mainly problems with mobile end-systems and multi-homing, ie the connection of an end system or node via different connections at the same time. Completely new approaches are based on the experience that later additions to an original and well-established architecture are limited in their introduction and acceptance. Evolutionary approaches have now numerous enhancements such as Mobile IP, IPSec, DiffServ, HIP, RSerPool, Shim6, etc. produced that were defined in the charge of the development of the Internet standards body IETF. As for the IETF is the reliable function of the existing Internet is of primary interest, there are only solutions - mainly in the form of new or improved protocols - developed which can be integrated gradually and without disturbances in the existing Internet.

The integration of such additional and additional advanced solutions for subproblems turns out, however, sometimes quite difficult, so that more and more common considerations towards completely new solutions, that is, without regard to compatibility with the existing Internet, be pursued. Most Clean -Slate design projects, however, are largely not yet been completed or technically not fully developed, so they are not discussed here ( both to avoid unequal treatment as well as maintain this entry stable). Central, abstract questions are for example:

  • What are the requirements of a global network in 15 years?
  • How would you develop from today's perspective, the network of tomorrow, if you are new designs it from scratch?

Other non-technical aspects include socio-economic, business and environmental concerns. The OECD has launched the term " Future Internet " activities to life, to develop recommendations for the future of the Internet economy and to publish (see Related Links )

As currently emerging consensus is neither a technical nor a standardization towards a Future Internet, Future Internet, the term should be used with caution, that is, it does not refer in particular to a specific technology, but rather refers to the numerous, worldwide research activities in this direction. In addition, projects are included under the term Future Internet often, aimed at providing experimental platforms with which new approaches can be tested and tried in larger environments. The U.S. GENI project is one of the best known representatives of this, Germany in late 2008, the German -Lab founded as a national platform for experiments.

Examples of Future Internet activities and research programs

  • FIND ( Future Internet Network Design) - Initiative of the NSF (USA)
  • FIRE ( Future Internet Research and Experimentation ) - initiative of the European Commission in the 7th Framework Programme ( EU IST FP7)
  • Future Internet Assembly (FIA, Europe)
  • ITU- T Study Group 13 ( SG13 ) on Future Networks including mobile and NGN focus group FG -FN, Q21/13
  • ITFAN Inter-Agency Task Force for Advanced Networking ( USA)
  • It839/u-it839 (Korea)
  • NICTA (Australia)
  • ANR (France)
  • Groupe de Reflexion Internet du Futur (France)
  • G -LAB funded by the BMBF ( Germany )
  • AKARI Project ( Japan)
  • It839/u-it839 and FIF ( Future Internet Forum ) sponsored by the MIC ( Korea) http://www.fif.kr/
  • SuperJANET funded by EPSRC (UK)
  • Http://www.4ward-project.eu/ FP7 4WARD EU Project
  • Http://cleanslate.stanford.edu/ Clean Slate Program ( Stanford University, USA )
  • Http://www.isi.edu/newarch/ Newarch project: Future- generation Internet architecture. , 2003.
  • Http://www.geni.net/ "Global Environment for Network Innovations"
  • Http://hamcast.realmv6.org/ "Hybrid Adaptive Mobile Multicast - A component within a multi-service Internet Architecture "

Related Links

  • Http://www.future-internet.eu "Future Internet Assembly " (European Future Internet activities)
  • Http://www.oecd.org/FutureInternet " OECD: Future Internet "
  • Http://www.zukunftsweb.at/ German -language initiative for raising awareness around the topic of " Future Internet "

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  • Internet
  • Computer Networks
  • Research project in FP7
Multihoming Host Identity Protocol Reliable Server Pooling Internet Engineering Task Force National Science Foundation
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