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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Roscoe, Timothy

Titel

Network architecture test-beds as platforms for ubiquitous computing

Ist Teil von

• Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2008-10, Vol.366 (1881), p.3709-3716

Ort / Verlag

London: The Royal Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Distributed systems research, and in particular ubiquitous computing, has traditionally assumed the Internet as a basic underlying communications substrate. Recently, however, the networking research community has come to question the fundamental design or 'architecture' of the Internet. This has been led by two observations: first, that the Internet as it stands is now almost impossible to evolve to support new functionality; and second, that modern applications of all kinds now use the Internet rather differently, and frequently implement their own 'overlay' networks above it to work around its perceived deficiencies. In this paper, I discuss recent academic projects to allow disruptive change to the Internet architecture, and also outline a radically different view of networking for ubiquitous computing that such proposals might facilitate.