This survey paper is intended for researchers interested in various future Internet platforms. The authors address the possible challenges of shifting the current state-of-the-art Internet from static negotiations between different network domains toward the dynamic handling of negotiations across multiple domains. The aim of the study and its outcome measures are clearly described, with appropriate references to the literature.

The first two sections discuss the importance of a federated network management paradigm. The authors address the problem of service-oriented delivery platforms and describe the aim of federated network management.

The third section outlines concrete steps to achieve federated management of the future Internet by incorporating two important architectural models: the layered federation model from the Federated Autonomic management of End-to-End Communication Services project (FAME), and the autonomic Internet architecture from the European AutoI project. The former deals with semantic ontology mapping and the latter mainly focuses on policy alignment. The proposed system should have a mechanism that will encompass both of these features. This section compares the two models with respect to the negotiation, configuration, and management of dynamic network federations.

The fourth section discusses the importance of the two architectures and outlines the challenges of incorporating these two models into future platforms. Figure 3 depicts six identified challenges and their relationships (both horizontal and vertical) to each other.

The concepts are explained in a precise manner and the paper gives sound and authoritative arguments for defining a more sophisticated mechanism for satisfying quality requirements prompted by the Internet’s current technological advancements. The limitations of the study are also clearly discussed.

This is a well-documented study; it will be useful to content providers, content distribution networks (CDNs), service providers, and cloud providers resolving future Internet quality of service (QoS) issues. I found it very useful as a reference paper, and I recommend it to researchers and scholars interested in the federated network management paradigm.