4WARD: A European Perspective towards the Future Internet

Abstract

SUMMARYIn this paper, we describe several approaches to address the challenges of the network of the future. Our main hypothesis is that the Future Internet must be designed for the environment of applications and transport media of the 21st century, vastly different from the initial Internet's life space. One major requirement is the inherent support for mobile and wireless usage. A Future Internet should allow for the fast creation of diverse network designs and paradigms and must also support their coexistence at run-time. We detail the technical and business scenarios that lead the development in the EU FP7 4WARD project towards a framework for the Future Internet.

Towards a Secure Network Virtualization Architecture for the Future Internet

“…The EU-funded projects 4WARD [4] and its successor, SAIL [7], are defining an ICN architectural paradigm called Network of Information (NetInf) [3] that extends the concept of identifier/locator split with another level of indirection and decouples self-certifiable objects from their storage location(s). Another EU-funded project, PURSUIT [38], also approach the ICN but proposing a publish/subscribe view where information consumers subscribe to the information they want and information providers "publish" it.…”

Costing framework for service-oriented future internet architectures

“…Several service-oriented approaches have been presented during last years trying to solve current Internet deficiencies [11] [16]. However, these proposals must face several challenges [13] to design an overall solution overcoming the current TCP/IP stack functional and performance deficiencies.…”

“…In one hand, evolutionary architectures propose to improve current Internet by introducing new functionalities gradually [8]. On the other hand, clean-slate approaches [11][16] [19] propose to introduce new architectures avoiding the rigidity of the current stack. The interest of the scientific community to propose new solutions to current architecture is also being recently driven by standardization bodies such as ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6/WG7 (more clean-slate) or ITU-T SG13 (more evolutionary).…”

Preallocated Duplicate Name Prefix Detection Mechanism Using Naming Pool in CCN Based Mobile IoT Networks

“…To solve such limitations, many researchers have paid attention to the new networking architecture like information centric networking (ICN), at which content is accessed by a content name itself instead of IP address for the node having the content. There are typical examples for ICN: DONA [2], 4WARD [3], NetInf [4], PSIRP [5], and CCN [6]. Among these studies, this paper focuses on the contentcentric networking (CCN) architecture because it is regarded as efficient networking architecture for content sharing [7].…”