GUEST EDITORIAL SPECIAL ISSUE ON FUTURE NETWORK DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION
Xiaonv Hu, Renchao Xie, Tao Huang · International Journal of Robotics and Automation · 2018
Internet, as a vital infrastructure of our society, has played an important role in promoting social development and industrial automation.With the rapid development of network applications, the Internet is gradually penetrating into the real economy from traditional consumption, such as industry Internet, energy Internet, Internet of Vehicles and other new fields.The in-depth fusion between the Internet and the real economy can bring a broader market prospect.Meanwhile, it also has a higher requirement for the service quality and guarantee, which brings severe challenges for current Internet architecture.This is because that the Internet was initially designed to mainly meet the demand of interconnection among computers, which is very difficult to meet the new requirement brought by the fusion between Internet and the real economy due to the limitations in aspects such as scalability, security, and controllability.In this case, future network such as software defined networking (SDN), information centric-networking, cloud computing, 5G, mobile Internet, and big data has been proposed and attracted a lot of attention in recent years.Many countries have viewed future network as strategic emerging industries.The United States of America, European Union, China, Japan, and other countries in recent years have launched a series of future network test infrastructure projects at the domestic level.From the perspective of industry, many well-known ISP operators and equipment manufacturers such as Google, Microsoft, AT&T, and IBM have also pre-empted the future network commanding heights and gained footing in the layout of this field.And based on the capital M&A tide, billions of dollars in mergers and acquisitions have been happened in many companies.Moreover, emerging technologies as well as the rapid development of businesses are affecting the economic, social and cultural development in unprecedented depth and breadth.To promote the development of future network technology, the international conference on China Future