Evolving the Future Internet Clean-Slate Entity Title Architecture with Advanced Quality-Oriented Control Mechanisms
Future Internet, Software Defined Networks, QoS Control, Dynamic Over-Provisioning
Current Internet has confronted quite a few problems in terms of network security, scalability, performance, etc., mainly due to the rapid increase of the number of end-users and various new service demands, requiring new solutions to support future usage scenarios. New Future Internet approaches targeting Information Centric Networking, such as the Entity Title Architecture (ETArch), provide new services and optimizations for these scenarios, using novel mechanisms leveraging the Software Defined Networking (SDN) concept. However, ETArch approach is equivalent to the Best Effort capability of current Internet, which limits achieving reliable communications. In this work, we evolved ETArch with both quality-oriented mobility and resilience functions following the over-provisioning paradigm to achieve advanced network resource allocation integrated with OpenFlow. The resulting framework, called Support of Mobile Sessions with High Transport Network Resource Demand (SMART), allows the network to semantically define the quality requirements of each session to drive network Quality of Service control seeking to keep best Quality of Experience. The results of the preliminary performance evaluation of SMART were analyzed using Mininet, showing that it allowed supporting mobile multimedia applications with high transport network resource and quality demand over time, as well as efficiently dealing with both mobility and resilience events.