Next-Generation Internet: Architectures and Protocols

With ever-increasing demands on capacity, quality of service, speed, and reliability, current Internet systems are under strain and under review. Combining contributions from experts in the field, this book captures the most recent and innovative designs, architectures, protocols, and mechanisms that will enable researchers to successfully build the next-generation Internet. A broad perspective is provided, with topics including innovations at the physical/transmission layer in wired and wireless media, as well as the support for new switching and routing paradigms at the device and sub-system layer. The proposed alternatives to TCP and UDP at the data transport layer for emerging environments are also covered, as are the novel models and theoretical foundations proposed for understanding network complexity. Finally, new approaches for pricing and network economics are discussed, making this ideal for students, researchers, and practitioners who need to know about designing, constructing, and operating the next-generation Internet.

Table of Contents

Part I Enabling technologies
Chapter 1 Optical switching fabrics for terabit packet switches
Chapter 2 Broadband access networks: current and future directions
Chapter 3 The optical control plane
Chapter 4 Cognitive routing protocols and architecture
Chapter 5 Grid networking

Part II Network architectures
Chapter 6 Host identity protocol
Chapter 7 Contract-Switching for Managing Inter-Domain Dynamics
Chapter 8 PHAROS: an architecture for optical networks
Chapter 9 Customizable in-network services
Chapter 10 Architectural support for continuing evolution

Part III Protocols and practice
Chapter 11 Separating routing policy from mechanism in the network layer
Chapter 12 Multi-path BGP: motivations and solutions
Chapter 13 Explicit congestion control
Chapter 14 KanseiGenie: software infrastructure for resource management and programmability of wireless sensor network fabrics

Part IV Theory and models
Chapter 15 Theories for buffering and scheduling in Internet switches
Chapter 16 Stochastic network utility maximization and wireless scheduling
Chapter 17 Network coding in bi-directed and peer-to-peer networks
Chapter 18 Network economics