Chapters of Future Internet research

Telecommunications and the Internet are forming an increasingly integrated system for processing, storing, accessing and distributing information and managing content. Recently the content space is expanding by cognitive and sensory contents, billions of devices are to be interconnected, media convergence is highlighted and an open Digital Ecosystem is being formed. At the same time the identification capacity of the Current Internet is running out, Internet architectures are reconsidered for better managing mobility and quality requirements, security issues as well as for exploiting the opportunities derived from the technological development and the new data handling and cognitive concepts. The future of the Internet became an important research area, supported by the various ICT research funds and especially by the series of Future Internet Assemblies since 2008. The paper summarizes the challenges of the Current Internet, determines the relevant functions and features of the Future Internet, and presents the main research areas defining the chapters of Future Internet research activity in a layered model from basic research on Internet Science through the Internet Engineering up to Future Internet applications and experiments.