Planned Future Internet Infrastructure: A Plot Model for Higher Education Institution

Abstract

Nowadays Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are very dependent on their networks because of
communication development, and for achieving this objective a proper infrastructure is required.
Security is the main and progressive condition to maintain and update information of any Higher
Education Institution. This research work proposes Future Internet Infrastructure (FII) and related
security issues. This research is conducted on a public-sector university of Karachi, Pakistan. The
main purpose of taking the example of Education Institution is that in an education environment
usually, multi-discipline users and this is an observed practice that the users in HEI increase
gradually. Therefore, the flow of data is increased in term of their users. A proper internet
infrastructure is required to maintain all data with a security concern. The university which is the
part of our case study is an multi-campus institution. Its network works on technical concepts such
as, planning and designing of network infrastructure which control whole network infrastructure,
Cloud, Social Media safety policy, risk analysis for network security, network security policy on
advanced networking concepts. The existing system in university has some challenges in overall
IT structure. The overall infrastructure needs advanced concept and physical facilities
(authorization of the transaction, user authentication, encryption of data, planning of backup
policies, disaster recovery plan and physical security strategies with application security policy,
emails and website security, etc.).