ABSTRACT
Driven by the requirements of the emerging applications and networks, the Internet has become an architectural patchwork of growing complexity which strains to cope with the changes. The Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) is a new Internetwork architecture whose fundamental principle is that networking is only inter-process communication. RINA reconstructs the overall structure of the Internet, forming a model that comprises a single repeating layer, the Distributed IPC Facility, which is the minimal set of components required to allow distributed IPC between application processes. RINA is the result of an effort that tries to work out the general principles in computer networking that applies to everything. RINA is the specific architecture, implementation, testing platform and ultimately deployment of the theory. Analyse the RINA architecture reference model and specifications, identify holes in the mechanisms or missing policies, and propose enhancements/refinements. The ultimate goal of routing research in RINA is to create a framework for investigating different routing schemes in a recursive model.
