New technologies as well as new ways of using network services are rapidly changing the Internet's landscape. These developments will have far-reaching implications for the architecture of the networks of the future. However, the current Internet design is plagued with a number of fundamental limitations, which makes its use as the sole basis for the networking applications of the future questionable. We believe that the Future Internet must allow the co-existence of diverse network designs and paradigms, both new and old, to remain open to innovation and meet the challenges of the future. In this paper, we propose to use network virtualization, embedded in an architectural framework, to achieve this goal and to lay the foundation for the deployment of novel concepts such as content-centric networking.
-An increasingly wireless world faces new challenges due to the dynamicity of interactions, range of applications, multitude of available radio access technologies and network functionality. The Ambient Networks project recognizes these trends and enables the creation of innovative network solutions for mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G. These networks will enable scalable and affordable wireless networking while providing pervasive, rich and easy-to-use communication. A specific focus lies on enabling advanced capabilities in environments with increased competition as well as cooperation, environments that are populated by a multitude of user devices, wireless technologies, network operators and business actors. The project adopts a modular architecture that enables plug-and-play control extensibility that supports a wide range of different applications and network technologies. Based on a small subset of common functionality, this approach supports the dynamic deployment of advanced internetworking capabilities, such as media-and contextawareness or multi-radio access.
Factory automation and production are currently undergoing massive changes, and 5G is considered being a key enabler. In this paper, we state uses cases for using 5G in the factory of the future, which are motivated by actual needs of the industry partners of the "5Gang" consortium. Based on these use cases and the ones by 3GPP, a 5G system architecture for the factory of the future is proposed. It is set in relation to existing architectural frameworks.
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