Costing framework for service-oriented Future Internet architectures: empowering requester’s choice

Abstract

Internet is evolving fast thanks to the rising of new services and applications. This situation allowed realizing about current Internet deficiencies. Nowadays, researchers are proposing novel Internet architectures avoiding the rigidity of the layered structure posed by the TCP/IP stack. Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) principles are appropriate for proposing a flexible and scalable Internet architecture, which relies on the combination of services according to the requester needs. In this context it is necessary to introduce a framework for cost and price that enables requesters and providers to interact and create new business models for the Future Internet (FI). This work proposes a novel costing framework for providing services adapted to requester requirements.