Guest editorial—special issue on service modeling and design for the future Internet
Fabrizio Granelli, Michael Devetsikiotis · Journal of Internet Services and Applications · 2011
Today, the Internet represents the major communication and collaboration infrastructure worldwide.However, its value is defined by its services.While enthusiasm of developers in proposing novel services is reshaping the current Internet, there is a body of work that is examining issues related to network-level as well as application and service-layer topics of analysis, design, monitoring, and experimentation.Indeed, top-down interplay between services and networking creates unique modeling, design, and implementation challenges.The coupling of the above two aspects is required to enable the evolution of the Internet into the Internet of the Future, a pervasive cyberspace providing humanity with an unprecedented capability to communicate, share knowledge, and evolve.In this context, the purpose of this special issue is to focus the community's efforts in building up this important area, by discussing associated issues and required breakthroughs in research and development.The selected papers provide the readers with a snapshot of the recent and most interesting developments in modeling and design methodologies for the services of the Future Internet.