Future Media Internet Architecture Reference Model (v1.0)

Future Media Internet Architecture Think Tank White PaperThe Future Internet (FI) is expected to be a communication and delivery ecosystem, which will interface, interconnect, integrate and expand today's Internet, public and private intranets and communication networks of any type and scale, in order to provide efficiently, transparently and securely highly demanding services to humans and systems. This complex networking environment may be considered from various interrelated perspectives: the networks & infrastructure viewpoint, the services viewpoint, the media & information viewpoint. This document has been produces by a discussion forum of experts in the area of media and networks, named: Future Media Internet - Think Tank (FMIA-TT). FMIA-TT aims to create a reference model of a “Future Media Internet Architecture”, covering delivery, in the network adaptation/enrichment and consumption of media over the Future Internet ecosystem. This white paper concludes the first phase of the working group by proposing a FMIA reference model