Future internet visions and research clusters

Abstract

Telecommunications and the Internet are forming an increasingly integrated and global system for processing, storing, transporting information and managing content. At the same time the identification capacity of the Current Internet is running out, Internet architectures are reconsidered for better managing mobility and quality requirements, data handling and security issues, as well as for exploiting the opportunities derived from technological development. The future of the Internet became an important research and standardization area, focusing on service, resource, content and environmental awareness. The paper summarizes the challenges of the Current Internet, draws up the visions and the recent capabilities of the Future Internet, then identifies and clusters the relevant research topics defining the chapters of Future Internet research activity in a layered model from basic research on Internet Science through the Internet Engineering up to Future Internet applications and experiments.