3rd Future Internet Symposium 2010 - Call for Papers

Future Internet Symposium 2010: Towards a Converged, Consolidated and Sustainable Future Internet

The current Internet has undergone an essential transformation: it changed from a network of networks that enables access to remote machines by a consistent protocol suite (TCP/IP), to a network of content, applications, and services. Thus, it became a modern commodity for everyone.

The Future Internet (FI) is destined to continue this development and to provide improved features and usability for individuals and business. Its applications are expected to originate from areas such as entertainment, health, energy grid, utilities and environment, transport, mobility and logistics. Tight economic constraints however, require the Future Internet to consolidate and converge application-specific networks, and support for Internet of Services (IoS), Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Content (IoC) in a homogenous and, if possible, a single system.

A simple investigation of network performance requirements of the anticipated FI applications reveals a set of contrary needs that have challenged research on network architectures and protocols for decades. Only a few applications have been successful, e.g. P2P systems, which can adapt easily to heterogeneous environments.
Similarly, semantic technology provided meaningful relationships of content, but failed when it came to manageability and performance in universal and heterogeneous network systems.

Thus Internet applications have so far been developed mainly for fitting to specific networks. Now itís time for a change. Networks should be developed for applications. The universe of these networks might be considered as the Future Internet. The future network ecosystem will be supported by a consolidated, preferably single, platform. This platform needs to include support for services, things and content on both network and application layer. The FI ecosystem has to be sustainable, meaning that applications are supported efficiently, i.e. consuming a minimal amount of required resources, e.g. capacity, electricity, etc., while providing dedicated security and sufficient performance for the applications throughout their lifetime.

Classical research on network architectures and protocols, semantic technologies, service technologies, content and media, sensors and things is isolated. Thus these disciplines were unable to meet all requirements. Therefore, an interdisciplinary approach of these research areas is suggested for a sustainable Future Internet.

The aim of the Future Internet Symposium is to bring together scientists and engineers from academia and industry and from various disciplines to exchange and discuss their ideas, views and research results towards a consolidated, converged and sustainable Future Internet.

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