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A proposal is presented for a possible Architecture Framework covering certain demands of the Future Internet. Some concepts, terms and the basic constructs are defined, in order to model Network Architectures. This Architecture Framework provides two levels of views on network architectures: the macroscopic view, mainly focusing on structuring the network at a higher level of abstraction, and introducing the concept of Strata; the microscopic view, concentrating more on the functions needed in the network nodes, their selection and composition to Netlets. Functional Blocks are presented as the common points between the two views of the architecture. The Component Based Architecture constructs and principles are used as the basis to provide reusable frameworks that minimise the design and development times of new network architectures.
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For the interconnection of different virtual networks, the virtual network operators involved would play similar roles to the case of current physical network interconnection.
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Logical Node is not the same as Virtual Node (as defined in Network Virtualisation). It refers to the distributed feature.
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Service Oriented Network (SON): designed following a flexible set of principles during the system development and integration phases. Services comprise unassociated, loosely coupled units of functionality that have no calls to each other embedded in them. Functionalities use protocols to describe how services pass and parse messages, using description metadata.
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Network artefact represents any network element (Netlets, Strata, a specific Functional Block, a network itself) that can be designed.
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Perez Sanchez, S., Bless, R. (2011). Network Design. In: Correia, L., Abramowicz, H., Johnsson, M., Wünstel, K. (eds) Architecture and Design for the Future Internet. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9346-2_4
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