Nowadays most portable electronic devices have some sort of network capability. However,
due to different power, cost and processing limitations, the choice of networking technology …

The Internet is a crucial infrastructure for the digital era of a fully connected society.
However, the design of the Internet's protocols occurred several decades ago based on …

The immense proliferation of present day Internet has changed not only the initial context of
networking but also the way it is used nowadays for enormous content dissemination …

Networking research funding agencies in USA, Europe, Japan, and other countries are
encouraging research on revolutionary networking architectures that may or may not be …

The convergence of computer-communication networks towards an all-IP integrated network
has transformed Internet in a commercial commodity that has stimulated an un-precedent …

The great success of the Internet has been essentially based on the simplicity and versatility
of its TCP/IP architecture, which imposes almost no restrictions on either the underlying …

While we can observe a fast evolution and innovation of link-layer technologies and
networked applications, the core Internet architecture with TCP/IP remains rigid. New …

Abstract 5G NR, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth communications are all data based where the data
(stream of bits, a bit being either a 1 or a 0) is sent in discrete packets, each packet being a …

Ubiquitous deployment of middleboxes has resulted in ossification of the transport layer,
with TCP and UDP becoming part of the narrow waist of the Internet. This is a necessary …

The articles in this special section focus on future Internet applications. n the 50 years of its
existence, the Internet has moved from an academic network to the supporting lifeline of the …