The Internet Protocol -- Past, some current limitations and a glimpse of a possible future
Nuno M. Garcia

TL;DR
This paper reviews the evolution of Internet Protocols, discusses current limitations, and proposes future directions including a novel connectionless data transmission method using IPv6 addresses.
Contribution
It introduces a new approach to defining network interface addresses with Variable Length Subnet Masks and suggests improvements for connectionless data transfer in IPv6.
Findings
Historical overview of Internet Protocol evolution
Identification of current network limitations
Proposal of a novel IPv6-based connectionless transmission method
Abstract
The network layer is central to the networking scientific area. It is around the network layer that all the data communications develop, and one of its main tasks is to allow the identification of each single interface/machine between the potentially many interfaces in a network. This seminar addresses some of the issues that are usually presented to young Computer Science Engineering students in the course of several classes, but also presents some topics that are not address in networking courses. It is mostly focused on using Internet Protocol addresses in Local Area Networks, also considering issues that belong to the Wide Area Networks, such as data aggregation. This document summarizes the content of a seminar, therefore it comprehends both teaching and researching subject. The seminar starts with a history of the evolution of the communication protocols from the early days of…
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Taxonomy
TopicsNetwork Traffic and Congestion Control · Distributed systems and fault tolerance · Interconnection Networks and Systems
