I happened upon a quote from Rutgers professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri: “It’s sort of a miracle that it continues to work well today.”
That’s not really an eye-catcher, and I’m not so sure I agree, but what followed sure did catch my eye:
“Dipankar Raychaudhuri is a Rutgers University professor who is overseeing a federal research project to look at whether the Internet needs to be completely scrapped and started over.”
A federal research project to look at whether the Internet needs to be completely scrapped and started over. Just how in the world would that be possible!?
Eventually I found this site, http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/pub/Index.html
And then found the following, http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/pub/docs/nsf-grants-2006.html
National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants awarded to WINLAB faculty (2006)Title: Collaborative Research: NeTS-FIND: Postcards from the Edge: A Cache-and-Forward Architecture for the Future Internet.
Staff: Prof. Roy Yates (PI), Prof. D. Raychaudhuri (Co-PI), Dr. Sanjoy Paul (Co-PI)
Length: 09/01/2006 - 08/31/2009Title: Collaborative Research: NeTS-FIND: CogNet - An Experimental Protocol Stack for Cognitive Radio Networks and Its Integration with the Future Internet.
Staff: Prof. D. Raychaudhuri (PI), Prof. N. Mandayam (Co-PI), Prof. Predrag Spasojevic (Co-PI)
Length: 09/01/2006 - 08/31/2009Title: NeTS-FIND: A Geometric Stack for Location-Aware Networking.
Staff: Prof. Marco Gruteser (PI), Prof. Rich Martin (Co-PI)
Length: 09/01/2006 - 08/31/2009
The text describing the link for the information above is as follows:
WINLAB Faculty awarded NSF research grants totaling more than $2.6 Million, including three future Internet (FIND) grants.
I’m not sure if FIND is what was being referred to as “a federal research project to look at whether the Internet needs to be completely scrapped and started over”, but it’s the best I’ve been able to find so far.
That is all the background I can come up with.
My question and reason for this thread is whether you think the Internet can be replaced?
If you think so, just how in heaven’s name do you think it would be possible?