Computer networks
The Science of Programming
Tussle in cyberspace: defining tomorrow's internet
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Addressing reality: an architectural response to real-world demands on the evolving Internet
FDNA '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future directions in network architecture
Plutarch: an argument for network pluralism
FDNA '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future directions in network architecture
FARA: reorganizing the addressing architecture
FDNA '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future directions in network architecture
Ambient networks: an architecture for communication networks beyond 3G
IEEE Wireless Communications
Janus: an architecture for flexible access to sensor networks
DIN '05 Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Dynamic interconnection of networks
Survey of research towards robust peer-to-peer networks: search methods
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
An axiomatic basis for communication
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Network Virtualization: A Viable Path Towards the Future Internet
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Invigorating the future internet debate
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Towards formalizing network architectural descriptions
ABZ'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B and Z
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The first age of Internet architectural thinking concentrated on defining the correct principles for designing a packet-switched network and its application protocol suites. Although these same principles remain valid today, they do not address the question of how to reason about the evolution of the Internet or its interworking with other networks of very different heritages. This paper proposes a complementary methodology, motivated by the view that evolution and interworking flexibility are determined not so much by the principles applied during initial design, but by the choice of fundamental components or "design invariants" in terms of which the design is expressed. The paper discusses the characteristics of such invariants, including examples from the Internet and other networks, and considers what attributes of invariants best support architectural flexibility.