A Multistep Process Model for Selecting and Composing Functional Blocks in a Future Internet Architecture

Future Internet research activities try to increase the flexibility of the Internet. A well known approach in this area is to build protocol graphs by connecting functional blocks together. The protocol graph that should be used is the one most suitable to the application's requirements. This paper presents a Multistep Process Model to find the most suitable protocol graph. We evaluate our proposed method by conceptual review in combination with a defined evaluation scenario using loss reduction.