Electronic & Information Engineering College, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471039, P.R. China

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Abstract—In order to deal with the situation that current Internet cannot meet application requirements, we analyze the three features—pervasiveness, heterogeneity and intelligence that the future Internet possesses firstly. Secondly, we syncretize the technologies of cognition, cooperation, cross-layer, virtualization and cloud computing, and present a new architecture and thought to resolve the three features of future Internet. The architecture consists of Protocol Plane, Cognitive Plane and Control Plane, and involves some novel designed models such as layer protocol stack, three-layer cognitive rings and router cloud. Protocol plane mainly masks the lower layer heterogeneity of access networks and devices, and the upper layer diversity of application to achieve pervasiveness and heterogeneity of future Internet. Cognitive plane performs decision-making to achieve intelligence of future Internet based on perception, cross-layer, cooperation, machine learning, and so on. Control Plane deals with the implement problems of network adjustment through configurable components. The architecture and thought provide a useful reference for the researches of future Internet.

Index Terms—Future Internet, Network Architecture, Cognition, Cooperation, Cross-Layer, Virtualization, Cloud-computing

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Cite: Mingchuan Zhang, Ruijuan Zheng, Qingtao Wu, Wangyang Wei, Guanfeng Li, "The Future Internet: Towards Convergence of Cognition, Cooperation, Cross-layer, Virtualization and Cloud-computing," Journal of Computers vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 3134-3143, 2013.