Future internet architectures and sustainability: An overview

The Internet Protocol (IP) traffic is constantly growing. The annual global IP traffic is estimated to reach 2.3 Zettabyte per year by 2020 according to the recent Cisco forecasts. New Internet infrastructures are required to handle the emerging Big Data. Several pilot initiatives have proposed Future Internet (FI) architectures. We provide an overview of the FI architectures from the perspective of sustainable development.