Towards A Future Internet Architecture

In this paper we describe the architectural approaches taken in the 4WARD project to address the challenges of the network of the future. Our main hypothesis is that the Future Internet must allow for the rapid creation of diverse network designs and paradigms and must also support their coexistence at run-time. A novel network design process and deployment architecture is needed that enables new interoperable network architectures on top of established infrastructure. To enable this flexibility, networking resources need to be described in a uniform way. We outline the generic path architecture in this paper as our approach to this challenge. Moreover, the Internet's focus on interconnecting hosts and delivering bits has to be replaced by a more holistic vision of a network of information and content. This is a natural evolution of scope requiring a re-design of the architecture. To make this flexibility economically viable, a radically new management architecture has to be designed. We describe all these architectural elements that together form a framework for diversified but interoperable networks of the future

From internet architecture research to standards

Many Internet architectural research initiatives have been undertaken over last twenty years. None of them actually reached their intended goal: the evolution of the Internet architecture is still driven by its protocols not by genuine architectural evolutions. As this approach becomes the main limiting factor of Internet growth and application deployment, this paper proposes an alternative research path starting from the root causes (the progressive depletion of the design principles of the Internet) and motivates the need for a common architectural foundation. For this purpose, it proposes a practical methodology to incubate architectural research results as part of the standardization process

Design principles for the future internet architecture

Design principles play a central role in the architecture of the Internet as driving most engineering decisions at conception level and operational level. This paper is based on the EC Future Internet Architecture (FIArch) Group results and identifies some of the design principles that we expect to govern the future architecture of the Internet. We believe that it may serve as a starting point and comparison for most research and development projects that target the so-called Future Internet Architecture

The Impact of Digital Technologies on Food Companies\u27 Information Systems: A Literature Review

Made in Italy companies, and in particular those operating in the food sector, play a fundamental role in the Italian economy and represent its most dynamic component. Technolo- gies, and in particular smart technologies, are becoming a key factor so as to be progressively adopted in manufacturing companies, in particular in the manufacturers of machines, plants, pro- duction equipment, food processing and preservation. Therefore, the implementation and use of innovative accounting information systems also seem essential to transform the strategic plan- ning process by providing new relationships with employees, customers and suppliers, new ways of data analysis to support strategic actions [1], changing competitive dynamics and suggesting new sources of innovation [2]. The rise of the fourth industrial revolution [3] is opening new growth opportunities for territories and businesses, which can achieve superior performance through these technological processes. The aim of this research is to identify, through a system- atic literature review, what is the state of the art on information systems and technologies of the digital world and how they affect organizations belonging to the food sector

Realising Future Internet Potentials for Food Chain SMEs: A Hierarchy of Needs

The EC funded FI‐PPP programme is currently elaborating a large set of enabling technologies that shall help to overcome challenges towards a sustainable networked society of tomorrow. This up‐front investment can highly facilitate access to such Internet potentials by food chain SMEs. Nevertheless, SMEs require a systematic support for being able to decide on which technological enablers are relevant at which moment of their business evolution. To characterise a decision reference, a hierarchy of needs of food chain SMEs is presented that can serve asbaseline when aiming at the usage of the FI‐PPP results in an SME environment

An efficient pending interest table control management in named data network

Named Data Networking (NDN) is an emerging Internet architecture that employs a new network communication model based on the identity of Internet content. Its core component, the Pending Interest Table (PIT) serves a significant role of recording Interest packet information which is ready to be sent but in waiting for matching Data packet. In managing PIT, the issue of flow PIT sizing has been very challenging due to massive use of long Interest lifetime particularly when there is no flexible replacement policy, hence affecting PIT performance. The aim of this study is to propose an efficient PIT Control Management (PITCM) approach to be used in handling incoming Interest packets in order to mitigate PIT overflow thus enhancing PIT utilization and performance. PITCM consists of Adaptive Virtual PIT (AVPIT) mechanism, Smart Threshold Interest Lifetime (STIL) mechanism and Highest Lifetime Least Request (HLLR) policy. The AVPIT is responsible for obtaining early PIT overflow prediction and reaction. STIL is meant for adjusting lifetime value for incoming Interest packet while HLLR is utilized for managing PIT entries in efficient manner. A specific research methodology is followed to ensure that the work is rigorous in achieving the aim of the study. The network simulation tool is used to design and evaluate PITCM. The results of study show that PITCM outperforms the performance of standard NDN PIT with 45% higher Interest satisfaction rate, 78% less Interest retransmission rate and 65% less Interest drop rate. In addition, Interest satisfaction delay and PIT length is reduced significantly to 33% and 46%, respectively. The contribution of this study is important for Interest packet management in NDN routing and forwarding systems. The AVPIT and STIL mechanisms as well as the HLLR policy can be used in monitoring, controlling and managing the PIT contents for Internet architecture of the future

Support for heterogeneous dynamic network environments through a reconfigurable network service platform

In a future internet of things, an increasing number of every-day objects will be connected with each other. These objects can be very diverse in terms of their network protocols and communication technologies. As more resource constrained devices such as sensor networks and PDAs are added to our environment, supporting efficient communication between these heterogeneous devices becomes a key challenge in next-generation networks. To realize this challenge, this paper presents a reconfigurable network framework (IDRA) that supports direct connectivity between heterogeneous co-located devices, without the need for complex translation gateways

Future Internet as a Driver for Virtualization, Connectivity and Intelligence of Agri-Food Supply Chain Networks

The food and agribusiness is an important sector in European logistics with a share in the EU road transport of about 20%. One of the main logistic challenges in this sector is to deal with the high dynamics and uncertainty in supply and demand. This paper discusses the opportunities of Future Internet (FI) technologies to addresses the specific demands on information systems for logistics in the food and agribusiness domain. More specifically, it presents a Future Internet (FI) based design for smart agri-food logistic information systems. This design aims to enable new types of efficient and responsive logistics networks with flexible chain-encompassing tracking and tracing systems and decision support based on that information. These systems effectively virtualise the logistics flows from farm to fork, support a timely and error-free exchange of logistics information and provide functionality for intelligent analysis and reporting of exchanged data to enable early warning and advanced forecasting

Estudo experimental comparativo entre Content Centric Networking e Entity Title Architecture

Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação)A pesquisa em redes de Internet do Futuro é fundamental para identificar e validar uma nova rede, mais eficiente, eficaz e capaz de atender os novos conjuntos de requisitos da rede. Nesse estudo será feita uma comparação entre duas propostas clean slate de arquiteturas de rede do futuro. A primeira abordagem, ETArch, é uma rede centrada no workflow capaz de gerenciar e controlar o funcionamento da rede, essencialmente implementando o conceito das redes Software Defined Networking (SDN). A segunda arquitetura, CCN, é uma rede centrada no conteúdo cujo o foco é o armazenamento e a distribuição de conteúdos através de nomes. As arquiteturas ETArch e CCN foram implementadas em uma máquina de uso pessoal com o intuito de analisar o comportamento dessas redes sobre uma aplicação de Chat. A avaliação das abordagens ETArch e CCN foi feita a partir de um ambiente de teste analisando um conjuntos de métricas

Adding value to Future Internet experimental facilities: Challenges, requirements and recommendations

MyFIRE, a support action project under the FIRE initiative funded by the EU, was designed to identify best practices, gaps and future challenges for the FIRE Future Internet Experimental Facilities-EFs. Building on these gaps, recommendations are made on how EFs may reach a broader user community, expanding the present internal research community to outside researchers and business communities. The gaps and challenges were elaborated based on the return drawn from a large survey with international stakeholders, on interviews with key personnel from different areas of expertise, on documents provided by Future Internet projects in the European Community, and on especially organized MyFIRE seminars. The study addresses users’ and providers’ requirements from EFs, public policy in R&D&I, standardization needs and business models for sustainability of the EFs beyond their initial public funding period. In addition, this paper recommends approaches to add value to Future Internet EFs. As a support action project, MyFIRE was not intended as a research project. Therefore, no scientific contribution was expected as an outcome of the project. MyFIRE contribution was to establish a realistic assessment of Fire Experimental Facilities-EFs prospects beyond initial public funding.Keywords: future internet, experimental facility, FIRE, MyFIRE, testbed