A Generalized Label-Forwarding Architecture for the Future Internet

It is common sense that security, privacy, mobility and quality-of-service are the vital parts of future Internet architectures. Nevertheless these aspects are still well separated fields of research resulting in a complex and highly redundant protocol stack within todays communication. Contrary to this our Future Internet design combines these requirements in a integrated and generalized approach. It is based on an label-forwarding architecture using so called extended labels and expanding the well-known end-to-end-concept to the application layer. This paper outlines a preliminary protocol design for further research on this approach.