Abstract:

The basic intention for the development of the Internet has been the simple and inexpensive interconnection of nodes to provide services like file download or e-mail. However, due to its huge growth and popularity, the classical protocols – which still constitute the basis of today’s Internet – have reached their limits of scalability and functionality. Lots of research has been performed in order to overcome these restrictions. On our poster, we would like to give a survey of the challenges on Network, Transport, Session and Application Layer, as well as an outline of solutions which will constitute – from the current perspective in 2007 and with regard to the standardization progress of the IETF – the basis of the Internet in 2022.