Researchers: Xavi Masip
Duration of the Project: from February 2010 to June 2011
Consortium: UPC (6 groups), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Universitat Ramon Llull (URL)
Current Internet architecture has remained nearly invariant since its inception in early 70’s. In incorporating all the services and applications evolution made in almost 40 years, the current architecture has become more and more complex and ossified. Applications, services, networks and protocols are evolving very quickly and it has been widely proved that TCP/IP is not able to efficiently cover the emerging demands of applications, mainly due to its rigid layered model.TARIFA proposes a new clean slate network architecture to deploy ubiquitous services avoiding hierarchical layering. TARIFA follows a service-oriented approach for a flow-oriented context-aware network architecture where communications are composed in situ using reusable and indivisible components called Atomic Services and according to the needs and requirements of the requester.