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Flexible Future of the Internet

The evolution of the Internet has played a central and crucial role as the main enabler of digital era. Thus, the Internet has been successfully deployed for several decades due to its high flexibility in operating using different physical media and supporting different higher layer protocols and applications. Although future networks will require a multimedia transport solution that is more aware of a delivery network’s requirements, the future Internet (FI) is expected to be more agile, scalable, secure, and reliable. Rapidly emerging applications with different requirements and implications for FI design pose a significant set of problems and challenges. In migrating toward the FI era, key characteristics ...

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