School of Computer Science and Statistics
Kubernetes provides an orchestration and runtime system for micro-services based on containers. The implementation of this virtualised infrastructure is based largely on communication using TCP and HTTP. In contrast, current web browsers and web servers are using QUIC, HTTP/3 and WebTransport to communicate as well. This project will investigate the use of QUIC, HTTP3 and … Read more
Currently, communication protocols are developed based on best practices, intuition, and discussion amongst developers. The performance of these protocols is then measured in terms of throughput, use of available bandwidth, scalability, etc. These measurements demonstrate the performance of a protocol but do not give any indication about the quality of the design of the protocol. … Read more
The current Internet architecture assumes communication based on the identity of hosts e.g. the name/IP address of a webserver in a URL. Individual clients connect to specific servers to retrieve documents and videos. Information-centric networking instead assumes that content is the focus of communication and is uniquely named in networks e.g. a consumer asks a … Read more
In contrast to conventional web-browsers and servers, solutions for embedded systems are challenged by resource restrictions such as limited memory and processing power, reliance on battery power and restricted connectivity to communication networks. Concential web-browsers and servers are moving towards employing a combination of HTTP/3 and QUIC, potentially with WebTransport being based on top of … Read more
Current communication between devices and cloud infrastructure is based largely on IPv4 or IPv6. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) proposes to retrieve information from the ‘network’ based on named content instead of focussing on communication with a endpoints identified by addresses. ICN approaches such as Named-Data Networking (NDN) require consumers to express interests for individual chunks of … Read more