- Baokang Zhao
School of Computer Science National University of Defense Technology Changsha, Hunan, CHINA
bkzhao@nudt.edu.cn
- Chunqing Wu
School of Computer Science National University of Defense Technology Changsha, Hunan, CHINA
chunqingwu@nudt.edu.cn
- Qin Xin
Faculty of Science and Technology University of the Faroe Islands, Denmark
qinx@setur.fo
Keywords: Internet Services, Information Security, Advances in Internet Security and Technology, JISIS,
Abstract
Today’s Internet has been considered as the largest engineered system ever created by mankind, which
consists of hundreds of millions of connected individual computer hosts, communication links, and
switches. It is a worldwide collection of connected networks that can be accessed by individual computer
hosts through different ways, including gateways, routers and switches, dial-up connections, and
Internet service providers. Combining with powerful capabilities of distributed computing and communications,
the Internet has been serving as a new paradigm of information infrastructure, a mechanism
for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals, government
agencies, financial companies, academic institutions and businesses of all size without taking
into account geographic locations. People and our societies have become increasingly dependent on the
Internet for personal or professional uses regardless of whether it is for e-mail, file transfer, remote login,
web page access or commercial transactions. Given that the Internet is so large and has so many diverse
components and uses, it naturally brings lots of challenges on issues related to architecture, congestion,
naming/addressing, interoperability, routing, resilience, dependability, fault tolerant, security and privacy.
To achieve a good performance for Internet applications, all these addressed issues above should
be considered.