Content, Connectivity, and Cloud: Ingredients for the Network of the Future
01 July 2011
In this paper, one addresses aspects of a new network architecture for the Internet, from three approaches: information centric networking or network of information, cloud computing integrated with networking, and open connectivity.
Information-centric networking considers pieces of information as first-class entities of a networking architecture, rather than only indirectly identifying and manipulating them via a node hosting that information; this way, information becomes independent from the devices they are stored on, enabling efficient and application-independent information caching in the network. Cloud networking offers a