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ZTE Communications ›› 2010, Vol. 8 ›› Issue (2): 7-11.

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Evolvable Internet Architecture (EIA)

Bi Jun, Lin Pingping, Hu Hongyu   

  1. Network Research Center of Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
  • Online:2010-06-25 Published:2020-02-27
  • About author:Bi Jun is a professor and director of the Network Architecture & IPv6 Division, Network Research Center of Tsinghua University. His research interests include network architecture and protocol, and next generation Internet. He has led over several national scientific research projects and was once awarded the second prize of National Science and Technology Achievement Prizes. He has published over 70 academic papers and has applied for 15 national patents of invention.

    Lin Pingping is a doctoral candidate at the Network Research Center of Tsinghua University. She is mainly engaged in researching network architecture and protocol, and next generation Internet. She has published 15 academic papers.

    Hu Hongyu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Network Research Center of Tsinghua University. She is mainly engaged in research on network architecture and protocol, and next generation Internet. She has published 20 academic papers.
  • Supported by:
    This work was funded by the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education of China under Grant No. 200800030034.

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Abstract: The end-to-end attribute of the Internet enables easy modification and deployment of applications running at the host. Competition among these applications promotes the development of the Internet. However, new protocols related to the core layer, and network routers and switches are often hard to successfully implement. This paper proposes an Evolvable Internet Architecture (EIA). It suggests that new network architectures can be plugged into network equipment or into a host through interfaces provided by EIA for network experimentation or actual network deployment. Users can independently select network architectures, and use one or some of these architectures at the same time. The diversity provided by EIA will promote the evolution of the Internet.