Evolution of the Internet Architecture

Researcher : S. Barré, P. François, D. Saucez, B. Donnet, D. Leroy, P.Mérindol

Research team : INL (IP Networking Lab)

Funds : Trilogy and ECode Projects

Description :

The current Internet was designed in the 1970s to allow researchers to access remote computers. Since then, the Internet has grown tremendously, both in number of users as well as in number of supported services. Some of the architectural choices made in the 1970s for a small research network are not optimised for today's global commercial Internet. The IP Networking Lab participates actively in the development of the architecture of the future Internet.