Management Framework for Future Internet Service Providers

Abstract

The Internet became the primary medium for content sharing, playing a central role in our modern lives. This new paradigm changed the behavior of the user and the characteristics of the applications, such as multimedia content, real time interaction, among others. Thus, the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) need to evolve, adding new technologies and management strategies to their network infrastructures, resulting in the Future Internet Service Providers (FISPs). Within this context, this paper presents the key technical trends and challenges for the management of FISPs, considering the requirements of user’s applications and the technologies to be standardized. Additionally, we introduce an architectural framework, called Framework for Integrated Management of Future Internet Service Providers (FIM), to expand the key technologies and to address the challenges in both access and edge networks, and to integrate the management of the FISP. A case study is presented to show the suitability of the proposed framework to enhance the management capacity of FISPs.