The focus of user behavior in the Internet has changed over the recent years towards being driven by exchanging and accessing information. Many advances in networking technologies have utilized this change by focusing on the content of an exchange rather than the endpoints exchanging the content. Network coding and informationcentric networking are two examples of these technology trends, each ...

This paper gives some perspectives on likely trends for the wireless Internet. The treatment is an exploration of some technologies, and due to the nature of the presentation it has not been possible to go into any technical details. This is not a comprehensive prognosis, but it should serve as a starting point for discussion of what major research requirements we should be addressing. We end t...

T he large scale use and integration of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities during last year's Operation Iraqi Freedom air/land campaign remains the case study in the ISR game. While most observers focused on the impact of large scale precision guided munitions use in effecting a defacto 'three week duration war', these precision weapons relied largely on targeting ...

It is undeniable that contemporary internetworking practices are drastically altering the social, political, moral, epistemological, and cultural landscapes in which we live. In a world in which an increasing amount of information is increasingly available everywhere and in which an increasing amount of everyday activity yields information about our innermost selves, we simply cannot stand stil...

We discuss the issue of mobility in Nimrod. While a mobility solution is not part of the Nimrod architecture, Nimrod does require that the solution have certain characteristics. We identify the requirements that Nimrod has of any solution for mobility support. We also classify and compare existing approaches for supporting mobility within an internetwork and discuss their advantages and disadva...

IPv6 is a new version of the internetworking protocol designed to address the scalability and service shortcomings of the current standard, IPv4. Unfortunately, IPv4 and IPv6 are not directly compatible, so programs and systems designed to one standard can not communicate with those designed to the other. IPv4 systems, however, are ubiquitous and are not about to go away “over night” as the IPv...

This document provides an overview of a workshop held by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) on wireless internetworking. The workshop was hosted by Nokia in Mountain View, CA, USA on February 29 thru March 2, 2000. The goal of the workshop was to assess current and future uses of Internet technology in wireless environments, to make recommendations on research and standardization tasks to im...

This article summarizes the presentations and discussions during a workshop on naming and addressing in a future Internet that was held in March 2009 at “Schloß Dagstuhl” in Germany. The aim of the workshop was to explore the different roles that names have in an internetwork architecture, as well as attempt to come to some agreements on what characteristics are important or desirable for names...

An Internet router was integrated into the UK-DMC remote-sensing satellite as a secondary experimental payload. This commercial product has been orbiting in space for over three years. We describe the integration of the router and satellite and the successful on-orbit testing of the router, which took place using the Virtual Mission Operations Center (VMOC) application as part of a larger syste...

The Internet has exponentially expanded to meet the new demands placed on its ever-growing network structure. However, its original data-sharing design cannot address issues, such as malware, Distributed Denial of Service, or the increased need to offer more reliable and trusted connections. With trusted connections come more revenue, reduced risks, and a greater variety of services. However, w...