Scenarios of Evolution for a Future Internet Architecture

This chapter describes three scenarios for a future Internet architecture: the user-centric, the object-centric and the content-centric. These scenarios are neither “different” nor “mutually exclusive” and they contain some predictions about the network usage evolution in our diary life and to do business. As an important part of the research on new architectures for the Future Internet, these scenarios are characterized by their network’s attributes and exemplified with some use cases. The identification of the attributes is one step toward the new Internet architecture requirements. During the research, some key convergence aspects among the scenarios were identified as well some specific characteristics of each one.