Keynote

This talk provides a perspective on prototyping and evaluation of a clean-slate future Internet architecture (MobilityFirst) now under development at Rutgers and collaborating institutions. The MobilityFirst network is designed to efficiently handle emerging mobility service requirements such as resilience against wireless channel impairments, disconnection tolerance, user and network mobility, multi-homing, content caching/retrieval and context-aware message delivery. Key protocol components of the proposed architecture are introduced and explained with specific examples - these include the global name resolution service (GNRS), generalized storage-aware routing (GSTAR) with disconnection tolerance, edge-aware inter-domain routing (EIR), and contentor context-aware services. Prototyping and evaluation approaches based on ORBIT or GENI testbeds are discussed for each of these protocol components, and sample evaluation results from work-in-progress are given. The talk concludes with an outline of the large-scale GENI prototype of MobilityFirst currently being deployed across a number of campus networks. This deployment is intended as a long-term GENI slice supporting seamless mobility, content and cloud services initially on Linux PC and Android smartphone platforms with dual-mode WiFi and WiMAX/4G access capabilities.