The Real Internet Architecture

Author : Pamela Zave,Jennifer Rexford
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780691261850

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A new way to understand the architecture of today’s Internet, based on an innovative general model of network architecture that is rigorous, realistic, and modular This book meets the long-standing need for an explanation of how the Internet's architecture has evolved since its creation to support an ever-broader range of the world's communication needs. The authors introduce a new model of network architecture that exploits a powerful form of modularity to provide lucid, insightful descriptions of complex structures, functions, and behaviors in today’s Internet. Countering the idea that the Internet’s architecture is “ossified” or rigid, this model—which is presented through hundreds of examples rather than mathematical notation—encompasses the Internet’s original or “classic” architecture, its current architecture, and its possible future architectures. For practitioners, the book offers a precise and realistic approach to comparing design alternatives and guiding the ongoing evolution of their applications, technologies, and security practices. For educators and students, the book presents patterns that recur in many variations and in many places in the Internet ecosystem. Each pattern tells a compelling story, with a common problem to be solved and a range of solutions for solving it. For researchers, the book suggests many directions for future research that exploit modularity to simplify, optimize, and verify network implementations without loss of functionality or flexibility.

Author : Pamela Zave,Jennifer Rexford
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780691255804

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The Real Internet Architecture by Pamela Zave,Jennifer Rexford Pdf

"This book offers a description of the architecture of the Internet as it actually exists now. It is a revolutionary description, based on a completely new model of network architecture, explaining how the Internet has evolved from its origins and how it is still evolving, and exposing previously unarticulated patterns and trends in network architecture. Essentially all discussion of the Internet is still dominated by the "classic" (five-layer) model put forth by its originators. This model is so outdated that it is a hindrance to understanding Internet evolution, as well as to teaching and doing effective research on networking. This book replaces it with a new model of networking called "compositional network architecture." This model has been formalized, but the book does not use the formal model; rather, the book relies on the model's accuracy and precision as a foundation for a convincing informal explanation, accessible to a much broader audience than a formal model would be (the formal model will be available on a companion website, along with teaching material). Many scholars and practitioners, seeing the Internet only through the lens of the classic Internet architecture, complain that the Internet has not evolved past its original architecture. Compositional network architecture is a general model for describing many architectures, and it shows clearly how the Internet has evolved since the early 1990s, and how it continues to evolve. Though the book is based on a conceptual model and is therefore a relatively abstract treatment, it is illustrated with hundreds of contemporary Internet examples, so there is no lack of concrete detail or grounding in reality. Compared to older works on networking, the book is also more concerned with network services-how a network helps users communicate. This is a natural outgrowth of the Internet as subject matter. Performance and scalability are the usual themes of Internet literature, as they were certainly the most important challenges of the Internet's early years. Since the 1990s, however, progress on performance and scalability has been steady and incremental. The major motivation for Internet evolution since then has been the need for enhanced services, including mobility, multicast, security, privacy, reliability, and support for content distribution, and the book will engage with these themes. It will serve as a reference for anyone dealing with internet architecture, and as a graduate textbook for networking courses"--

Author : Barbara Van Schewick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262518048

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Internet Architecture and Innovation by Barbara Van Schewick Pdf

A detailed examination of how the underlying technical structure of the Internet affects the economic environment for innovation and the implications for public policy. Today—following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment—the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture—a consequence of technical choices regarding the Internet's inner structure that were made early in its history. The Internet's original architecture was based on four design principles: modularity, layering, and two versions of the celebrated but often misunderstood end-to-end arguments. But today, the Internet's architecture is changing in ways that deviate from the Internet's original design principles, removing the features that have fostered innovation and threatening the Internet's ability to spur economic growth, to improve democratic discourse, and to provide a decentralized environment for social and cultural interaction in which anyone can participate. If no one intervenes, network providers' interests will drive networks further away from the original design principles. If the Internet's value for society is to be preserved, van Schewick argues, policymakers will have to intervene and protect the features that were at the core of the Internet's success.

Author : David D. Clark
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262038607

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Designing an Internet by David D. Clark Pdf

Why the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could be different, now and in the future. How do you design an internet? The architecture of the current Internet is the product of basic design decisions made early in its history. What would an internet look like if it were designed, today, from the ground up? In this book, MIT computer scientist David Clark explains how the Internet is actually put together, what requirements it was designed to meet, and why different design decisions would create different internets. He does not take today's Internet as a given but tries to learn from it, and from alternative proposals for what an internet might be, in order to draw some general conclusions about network architecture. Clark discusses the history of the Internet, and how a range of potentially conflicting requirements—including longevity, security, availability, economic viability, management, and meeting the needs of society—shaped its character. He addresses both the technical aspects of the Internet and its broader social and economic contexts. He describes basic design approaches and explains, in terms accessible to nonspecialists, how networks are designed to carry out their functions. (An appendix offers a more technical discussion of network functions for readers who want the details.) He considers a range of alternative proposals for how to design an internet, examines in detail the key requirements a successful design must meet, and then imagines how to design a future internet from scratch. It's not that we should expect anyone to do this; but, perhaps, by conceiving a better future, we can push toward it.

Author : Luxport Internet Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0971289107

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The Official Guide to Internet Architecture by Luxport Internet Corporation Pdf

Author : Luis M. Correia,Henrik Abramowicz,Martin Johnsson,Klaus Wünstel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789048193462

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Architecture and Design for the Future Internet by Luis M. Correia,Henrik Abramowicz,Martin Johnsson,Klaus Wünstel Pdf

Architecture and Design for the Future Internet addresses the Networks of the Future and the Future Internet, focusing on networks aspects, offering both technical and non-technical perspectives. It presents the main findings of 4WARD (Architecture and Design for the Future Internet), a European Integrated Project within Framework Programme 7, which addressed this area from an innovative approach. Today’s network architectures are stifling innovation, restricting it mostly to the application level, while the need for structural change is increasingly evident. The absence of adequate facilities to design, optimise and interoperate new networks currently forces a convergence to an architecture that is suboptimal for many applications and that cannot support innovations within itself, the Internet. 4WARD overcomes this impasse through a set of radical architectural approaches, built on a strong mobile and wireless background. The main topics addressed by the book are: the improved ability to design inter-operable and complementary families of network architectures; the enabled co-existence of multiple networks on common platforms through carrier-grade virtualisation for networking resources; the enhanced utility of networks by making them self-managing; the increased robustness and efficiency of networks by leveraging diversity; and the improved application support by a new information-centric paradigm in place of the old host-centric approach. These solutions embrace the full range of technologies, from fibre backbones to wireless and sensor networks.

Author : Barbara Van Schewick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262265577

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Internet Architecture and Innovation by Barbara Van Schewick Pdf

A detailed examination of how the underlying technical structure of the Internet affects the economic environment for innovation and the implications for public policy. Today—following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment—the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture—a consequence of technical choices regarding the Internet's inner structure that were made early in its history. The Internet's original architecture was based on four design principles: modularity, layering, and two versions of the celebrated but often misunderstood end-to-end arguments. But today, the Internet's architecture is changing in ways that deviate from the Internet's original design principles, removing the features that have fostered innovation and threatening the Internet's ability to spur economic growth, to improve democratic discourse, and to provide a decentralized environment for social and cultural interaction in which anyone can participate. If no one intervenes, network providers' interests will drive networks further away from the original design principles. If the Internet's value for society is to be preserved, van Schewick argues, policymakers will have to intervene and protect the features that were at the core of the Internet's success.

Author : Markus Hofmann,Leland R. Beaumont
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781558608344

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Content Networking by Markus Hofmann,Leland R. Beaumont Pdf

As the Internet has grown, so have the challenges associated with delivering static, streaming, and dynamic content to end-users. This book is unique in that it addresses the topic of content networking exclusively and comprehensively, tracing the evolution from traditional web caching to today's open and vastly more flexible architecture. With this evolutionary approach, the authors emphasize the field's most persistent concepts, principles, and mechanisms--the core information that will help you understand why and how content delivery works today, and apply that knowledge in the future. Focuses on the principles that will give you a deep and timely understanding of content networking. Offers dozens of protocol-specific examples showing how real-life Content Networks are currently designed and implemented. Provides extensive consideration of Content Services, including both the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) and Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES). Examines methods for supporting time-constrained media such as streaming audio and video and real-time media such as instant messages. Combines the vision and rigor of a prominent researcher with the practical experience of a seasoned development engineer to provide a unique combination of theoretical depth and practical application.

Author : Georgios Tselentis
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781607505389

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Towards the Future Internet by Georgios Tselentis Pdf

Emerging Trends from European Research. BThe way the book is structured and enhanced makes it an ideal reference book for managers, academics, researchers and system designers in the communications field./B BRBRI- Harry Skianis, Computing Reviews about the 2009 edition of Towards

Author : V. K. Murthy
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781591400493

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Architectural Issues of Web-enabled Electronic Business by V. K. Murthy Pdf

Web technologies play a critical role in today's web-enabled e-Business. A key to success in applying the web-based technologies to the real world problems lies in understanding the architectural issues and developing the appropriate methodologies and tools for designing e-Business systems. The main purpose of Architectural Issues of Web-Enabled Electronic Business therefore, is to provide e-Business professionals a holistic perspective of this field that covers a wide range of topics.

Author : Sun Professional Services
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015053395441

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Dot-com & Beyond by Sun Professional Services Pdf

Dot-com infrastructure failures often make headlines -- and in most cases, they're directly attributable to underlying architectural shortcomings. In this book, Sun consultants offer expert guidance on next-generation architecture for dot-coms -- and on the related design and implementation issues that are critical to every Internet-focused business. Dot-Com & Beyond reviews today's most powerful Internet-related opportunities for improving business efficiency, reaching new markets, and establishing "time-based" value chains. It then provides comprehensive guidance on implementing IT architectures that can support these new applications. The book introduces Sun's exclusive "3-dimensional methodology," and the key architectural, design, and implementation practices needed to create an effective Internet infrastructure. Discover how to build architectures that last, by designing for systematic qualities; how to manage dot-com projects effectively; and what future dot-com infrastructures will look like. The book also contains a start-to-finish case study drawn from an actual project at a leading Fortune 500 company. For all developers, system architects, e-commerce managers, and other IT professionals seeking better ways to leverage Internet technologies.

Author : G. Tselentis,J. Domingue,A. Galis
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781607504313

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Towards the Future Internet by G. Tselentis,J. Domingue,A. Galis Pdf

The Internet is a remarkable catalyst for creativity, collaboration and innovation providing us with amazing possibilities that just two decades ago would have been impossible to imagine. This work includes a peer-reviewed collection of scientific papers addressing some of the challenges that shape the Internet of the future.

Author : Tania Tronco
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642132469

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New Network Architectures by Tania Tronco Pdf

"Future Internet" is a worldwide hot topic. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for business development and social interactions. However, the immense growth of the Internet has resulted in additional stresses on its architecture, resulting in a network difficult to monitor, understand, and manage due to its huge scale in terms of connected devices and actors (end users, content providers, equipment vendors, etc). This book presents and discusses the ongoing initiatives and experimental facilities for the creation of new Future Internet Architectures using alternative approaches like Clean Slate and Incremental improvements: It considers several possible internet network use scenarios that include seamless mobility, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, internet of things and new paradigms like content and user centric networks.

Author : Samantha S. Moura Ribeiro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319335933

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Democracy after the Internet - Brazil between Facts, Norms, and Code by Samantha S. Moura Ribeiro Pdf

This book throws new light on the way in which the Internet impacts on democracy. Based on Jürgen Habermas’ discourse-theoretical reconstruction of democracy, it examines one of the world’s largest, most diverse but also most unequal democracies, Brazil, in terms of the broad social and legal effects the internet has had. Focusing on the Brazilian constitutional evolution, the book examines how the Internet might impact on the legitimacy of a democratic order and if, and how, it might yield opportunities for democratic empowerment. The book also assesses the ways in which law, as an institution and a system, reacts to the changes and challenges brought about by the Internet: the ways in which law may retain its strength as an integrative force, avoiding a ‘virtual’ legitimacy crisis.

Author : Adrian Perrig,Pawel Szalachowski,Raphael M. Reischuk,Laurent Chuat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319670805

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SCION: A Secure Internet Architecture by Adrian Perrig,Pawel Szalachowski,Raphael M. Reischuk,Laurent Chuat Pdf

This book describes the essential components of the SCION secure Internet architecture, the first architecture designed foremost for strong security and high availability. Among its core features, SCION also provides route control, explicit trust information, multipath communication, scalable quality-of-service guarantees, and efficient forwarding. The book includes functional specifications of the network elements, communication protocols among these elements, data structures, and configuration files. In particular, the book offers a specification of a working prototype. The authors provide a comprehensive description of the main design features for achieving a secure Internet architecture. They facilitate the reader throughout, structuring the book so that the technical detail gradually increases, and supporting the text with a glossary, an index, a list of abbreviations, answers to frequently asked questions, and special highlighting for examples and for sections that explain important research, engineering, and deployment features. The book is suitable for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students who are interested in network security.