Abstract
In this report we will investigate the deficiencies and the
achievements of today's Internet. We outline why and how Network
Virtualization (NV) can overcome the shortfalls of the current system
and how it paves the way for the future Internet. Furthermore, we
investigate the performance of a concurrent multipath transmission
mechanisms which is implemented using routing overlays and which is
facilitated by Network Virtualization. The major building blocks of NV
are the a) use of application-specific routing overlays, b) the safe
consolidation of resources by OS virtualization on a generic
infrastructure, and c) the exploitation of the network diversity for
performance enhancements and for new business models, such as the
provisioning of intermediates nodes or path oracles. The performance
investigation the concurrent multipath transmission reveals that an
appropriate engineering of the high capacity pipe is required. This
means that the path selection and the dimensioning of its mechanisms
has to be done carefully.
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