Principles, Protocols, and Algorithms for Large-scale Networks

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The Internet has enabled an unprecedented adoption of new communication services and revolutionized both personal and business relationships and interaction patterns. Most of the core technological foundations and principles of the Internet network and transport layers were designed during the 1970s and 1980s, with only a few crucial components having been added since then. Significant technical progress has improved the internals of packet delivery and increased the diversity of application services, but not fundamentally changed the way the Internet operates overall. Numerous research proposals have described advanced communication mechanisms, but very few such proposals have been deployed in the network infrastructure. In the research community, it is largely undisputed that the current Internet architecture has reached inherent functional limits for supporting advanced communication scenarios. This research program investigates core principles and mechanisms of any communication internetwork. It covers the full spectrum of related research questions, ranging from basic principles and algorithms to network stack implementations in operating systems.