Next-Generation Internet

With ever-increasing demands on capacity, quality of service, speed, and reliability, current Internet systems are under strain and under review. Combining contributions from experts in the field, this book captures the most recent and innovative designs, architectures, protocols, and mechanisms that will enable researchers to successfully build the next-generation Internet. A broad perspective is provided, with topics including innovations at the physical/transmission layer in wired and wireless media, as well as the support for new switching and routing paradigms at the device and sub-system layer. The proposed alternatives to TCP and UDP at the data transport layer for emerging environments are also covered, as are the novel models and theoretical foundations proposed for understanding network complexity. Finally, new approaches for pricing and network economics are discussed, making this ideal for students, researchers, and practitioners who need to know about designing, constructing, and operating the next-generation Internet.

Byrav Ramamurthy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL). He is a recipient of the UNL CSE Department Student Choice Outstanding Teaching Award, the author of Design of Optical WDM Networks (2000), and a co-author of Secure Group Communications over Data Networks (2004). His research areas include optical networks, wireless/sensor networks, network security, distributed computing, and telecommunications.

George N. Rouskas is a Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He has received several research and teaching awards, including an NSF CAREER Award, the NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award, and he has been inducted into the NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers. He is the author of the book Internet Tiered Services (2009) and his research interests are in network architectures and protocols, optical networks and performance evaluation.

Krishna Moorthy Sivalingam is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. Prior to this, he was a Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and also conducted research at Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Labs. He has previously edited three books and holds three patents in wireless networking. His research interests include wireless networks, wireless sensor networks, optical networks, and performance evaluation.