On Computer Network Architecture Issue
Meng Xia · 2005
Network architecture is a set of high-level design principles that guides the technical design of the net- work, especially the engineering of its protocols and algorithms. With the rapid development of the network technolo- gies and applications, the layered network architecture, which is widely used at present, has been exposed several problems gradually. Accordingly there are lots of researches about the novel network architectures. Based on intro- duced the definition of the network architecture, this paper focuses on the develop processes and characters of the cur- rent existent four network architectures, which are layered network architecture, object oriented network architec- ture, role-based network architecture and service-unit based network architecture. The network architecture prospect is also discussed at the end of this paper.