englishA Technical Overview of Evolutionary and Revolutionary Ideas
Dr. Tanja Zseby
Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
The Internet today is a complex agglomerate of protocols that inherits the grown legacies of
decades of patchwork solutions. Network management costs explode. Security problems are more
pressing than ever. At the same time application and user demands on the Internet are increasing
with mobile technologies and media content on the rise, all the while the number of participating
nodes is equally boosting.
As a direct consequence research programs have started worldwide to re-think traditional Internet
design principles and to come up with new architectural concepts for the Future Internet.
Additional programs in the US, Europe and Asia supplement theoretical research with federated
large-scale facilities for experimental research.
The Future Internet Tutorial provides an overview of evolutionary and revolutionary (clean slate)
Future Internet research directions and trends. It presents the Future Internet research initiatives
around the world and the efforts to establish experimental facilities for FI research. The tutorial
gives an introduction to Future Internet technologies that are currently under discussion. Among
the approaches discussed are new addressing and routing concepts beyond IPv6, Network
Virtualization, Functional Composition, Autonomic Communication and new network types.
Topics covered:
- Motivation for Future Internet Research
- Internet Problems
- Review of Internet Principles
- Evolution vs. Revolution
- Overview of Future Internet research initiatives
- EU Framework Programs, EU FIRE, US FIND, AKARI (Japan), G-Lab
(Germany), etc. - Future Internet Technology Trends
- Addressing and Routing Concepts (Loc/ID Split, new architectures, CCNs)
- Network Virtualization
- Functional Composition
- Autonomic Communication
- New Network types (user-driven mesh, DTNs, Pocket switched networks, etc.)
- Experimental Facilities for Future Internet research
- PlanetLab, PlanetLab Europe, FIRE, GENI, G-Lab, etc.
Speaker information
Dr.-Ing Tanja Zseby is head of the Competence Center Network Research (CC NET) at the
Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Berlin. With her group she works in various national and
international research projects in the area of Future Internet research with focus on novel
concepts for network protection and network management. In addition, she is teaching Future
Internet Technologies at Technical University Berlin.
She is active in Internet standardization (IETF) since 2000 and co-author of six RFCs. As
member of the OneLab core team she leads the work on packet tracking in PlanetLab Europe, a
testbed for experimental Future Internet research. She is member of the German IPv6 council,
member of the steering board of the German government-funded Future Internet Initiative G-Lab
and project leader of the project G-Lab Deep. Dr. Zseby also initiated the Future Internet Lab at
Fraunhofer FOKUS (www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/fi-lab).