Clean Slate Design of Internet for Supporting Service-Oriented Computing and Applications

Abstract

Summary form only given. The Internet today was designed four decades ago. The scale of the Internet has grown to enormously large. With the rapid technology advancement, we now have cheap and small devices with high computing power and large storage capacity. These devices are designed to improve our daily life by monitoring our environment, collecting critical data, and executing special instructions. These devices have gradually become an essential part of our future Internet. Unprecedented amount of data are collected by these devices. How to manage and look for the desired information becomes a great challenge. At the same time, many emerging applications like service-oriented, security and real-time applications demand much better support than the current Internet can offer. To meet these challenges, NSF research funding directions for NeTS (Networking Research Cluster) and Cyber Trust Program have been adjusted. NSF also starts a major effort, called GENI (Global Environment for Networking Innovations) to redesign the Internet from scratch. GENI consists of two major components: an experimental facility and a research program called FIND (Future Internet Design). We will discuss the current status of GENI, research funding directions of NOSS (Networks Of Sensor Systems) and FIND. At the University of Minnesota we are developing an intelligent storage approach that taking advantage of the technology advancement by migrating several key features from file systems and the layers above into storage devices. The research issues and potential benefits of this approach will also be briefly discussed. This serves as one of the examples of rethinking the required framework and architecture of the future Internet.