Future Internet services and architectures: trends and visions

Abstract

This special issue on Future Internet Services and Architectures: Trends and Visions is a selection of seven papers presented at the Workshop Future Internet Architectures, (open) second Euro-NF Workshop and Future Internet Cluster Meeting, June 9, 2009, Santander, Spain; co-located with the EU ICT Mobile Summit 2009. In this special issue, novel work and ideas are presented including first qualitative and quantitative results. Each paper has been reviewed by three expert reviewers. The guest editors would like to thank all workshop participants, paper authors, and reviewers for their outstanding work on this special issue. The ”Future Internet” or ”Internet of the Future” is a demanding research field. On the one hand, multimedia entertainment services and smart networked services for every-day activities are more and more requested by users ubiquitously, anywhere at any time. On the other hand, heterogeneous networks are connected ranging from optical networks, WiFi hotspots, mesh networks, 3G to upcoming 4G networks, Near Field Communication (NFC) and Wireless Sensor Networks. To cope with this complexity and flexibility of networking, new self-organizing and adaptive methods are required to make these plethora of connected networks work effectively and efficiently. In the Future Internet Architectures workshop, a variety of inspiring approaches have been presented ranging from disruptive network architecture assumptions