scholarly journals DSF: A Common Platform for Distributed Systems Research and Development

Author(s):  
Chunqiang Tang
2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Schultz ◽  
Daniele De Wrachien

Author(s):  
Timothy Roscoe

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.


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