Content, connectivity, and cloud: ingredients for the network of the future

Abstract

A new network architecture for the Internet needs ingredients from three approaches:information-centric networking, cloud computing integrated with networking, and open connectivity. Information-centric networking considers pieces of information as first-class entities of a networking architecture, rather than only indirectly identifying and manipulating them via a node hosting that information; this way, information becomes independent from the devices they are stored in, enabling efficient and application-independent information caching in the network. Cloud networking offers a combination and integration of cloud computing and virtual networking. It is a solution that distributes the benefits of cloud computing more deeply into the network, and provides a tighter integration of virtualisation features at computing and networking levels. To support these concepts, open connectivity services need to provide advanced transport and networking mechanisms, making use of network and path diversity (even leveraging direct optical paths) and encoding techniques, and dealing with ubiquitous mobility of user, content and information objects in a unified way.

A Review: Towards Quality of Service in Cloud Computing

“…The QoS modeling literature is extensive, making it difficult to have a comprehensive view of the available techniques and their current applications to cloud computing problems. Still a lot of work is to be done in this direction to make the cloud computing more effective and optimized and ease of access for the end users by various techniques [49].…”

“…Every organization looks to expand their business and provide better services to their customers. Therefore availability, reliability, resiliency and service stability become an important factor for them before they decide switching to Cloud services [49] [50].…”

Future research directions in design of reliable communication systems

“…The authors of [2] mention that in some cases according to the needs of users such as on-demand availability with very small latency requirements, the cloud computing environment can use a mist computing architecture, i.e., cloud resources (computing and storage) are distributed in the network in more extent than in classical cloud model. Another motivation behind the misty model follows from the energy consumption limitations.…”

A Survey of the Research on Future Internet and Network Architectures

“…Although caching is an old issue, its reality in actual environments is a hot topic [68], [69] in ICN research. These studies show that the current router implementation technology enables replacement of cached chunks at line speed.…”