Resilience of Future Internet Communications

Over the last 40 years, we have been observing a gradual evolution of the Internet from an academic network toward a widespread commercial architecture. The Internet was originally meant to be a computer communication network of datagram orientation only (i.e., mainly for conservative data traffic usage). Afterward, it has been progressively adapted to meet the evolving diverse expectations of end users concerning services and daily use applications to enhance the quality of life. All these demands have driven the research community to design the respective Future Internet (FI) solutions. This chapter investigates the resilience of Future Internet communications. It starts with the scheme of resource provisioning for the Future Internet architecture defined in terms of three Integer Linear Programming (ILP) models and equivalent heuristics that allow for fair allocation of network resources using the concept of virtualization. Later on, it investigates the resilience of content-oriented networking. In this context, it presents the extension of the anycast routing concept in a way that also protects against failures of destination nodes (which is impossible for the common unicast transmission scheme). The chapter also discusses the anycast routing technique to substantially reduce the number of affected flows due to malicious activities targeted at high-degree nodes.