Research Directions in Network Architectures and Protocols for Intelligent Digital Infrastructures

The availability of vast computing resources today allows us to reimagine how wireless networks and the Internet at large could operate if far more machine intelligence were used inside the networks themselves, rather than just at the servers and clients using them, and to develop new network architectures and protocols for intelligent digital infrastructures. This paper describes some results of how communication protocols can be reimagined taking into account much larger amounts of working memory capacity and machine intelligence, and outline a research agenda for the development of protocols for intelligent digital infrastructures.