Huang, Changcheng (Carleton University)

Purpose

We have witnessed the phenomenal growth of the Internet in the past two decades. This growth is increasingly driven by the introductions of new applications such as P2P computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), IPTV, online gaming, social networking, and web searching. While these new applications typically require contents being replicated and distributed over different locations, users are also becoming more mobile and multi-homed with widespread adoption of smart phones and tablets. These demands for mobility and multiplicity cannot be efficiently supported with the current core of the Internet, which is a host-centric environment that provides point-to-point connectivity between fixed attachments.