Special issue on Management Issues in the Future Internet

Abstract

It is widely agreed that the current Internet suffers from a number of fundamental architectural problems, including security, mobility, reliability, scalability, and manageability among others. In addition, business related problems, such as how network and service operators can be profitable, are also present. Recently, researchers in the networking area have been investigating ways to solve these problems, and are designing a new Internet called the Future Internet. Since network management was an afterthought in the current Internet, managing the Internet is currently very cumbersome and difficult. Thus, the manageability of the Future Internet must be considered from the very beginning in order to avoid a similar experience. This special issue on “Management Issues in the Future Internet” reports a selected state-of-the-art research on the Future Internet and its management issues.