Intelligent Eco Networking (IEN) III: A Shared In-network Computing Infrastructure towards Future Internet

Intelligent Eco Networking (IEN) makes significant progress to be a shared in-network computing infrastructure towards the future Internet, owing to its value-oriented ideology, content-centric fashion, intelligent collaborative management, and decentralized consensus trust preservation. Comprehensively uniting resources of computing, storage, and network, IEN executes the computing tasks in the network layer with name-based functions, integrating the SDN-like collaborative schedule and coexisting with the current TCP/IP via network slicing. To gradually evolve to be an advanced networking ecosystem, IEN copes with ultra-low latency, massive connections, and large-scale coverage to sustain the new rising information services. The simple evaluations demonstrate the profound potential of IEN in settling the in-network computing, providing the practical foundation for the multimodal computing paradigm in the future Internet.