Quality-oriented Mobility Control Architecture for ETArch Handover Optimization Felipe Silva 1,2 , Jos´ e Castillo-Lema 2 , Augusto Neto 2 , Fl ´ avio Silva 3 , Pedro Frosi 3 , Daniel Corujo 4 , Carlos Guimar ˜ aes 4 , Rui Aguiar 4 1 Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN) – Jo˜ ao Cˆ amara-RN, Brazil 2 Informatics and Applied Mathematics Department (DIMAp) – Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) – Natal-RN, Brazil 3 Faculty of Computing, Federal University of Uberlˆ andia (UFU) – Uberlˆ andia-MG, Brazil 4 Instituto de Telecomunicac ¸˜ oesde Aveiro (ITAV) – Aveiro, Portugal felipe.dsilva@ifrn.edu.br, josecastillolema@ppgsc.ufrn.br, augusto@dimap.ufrn.br, {flavio,frosi}@facom.ufu.br, {dcorujo,cguimaraes,ruilaa}@av.it.pt Abstract. This paper presents a work in progress focused on improve the Clean Slate Future Internet Entity Title Architecture (ETArch) with quality-oriented mobility functions, by deploying mobility prediction, Point of Attachment (PoA) decision and handover setup meeting both session quality requirements and cur- rent quality wireless conditions. 1. Introduction Among the initiatives to enhance the Internet of today, known as Future Internet (FI), the Entity Title Architecture (ETArch) [Silva et al. 2012] is a promising FI clean-slate architecture that employs a new naming and addressing scheme based on the Title, and shares the vision of content-oriented paradigms. It is a realization of the Entity Title Model [Pereira et al. 2011], and consists of a vision of how the entities should be able to semantically specify their requirements and capabilities so that they can communicate with each other. ETArch can inherently support mobile group-communication based on the OpenFlow [McKeown et al. 2008] substrate within the Workspace, a channel that is able to gather two or more communicating participants. ETArch has been recently enhanced with seamless mobility optimization control capabilities, by being integrated with enhancements inspired by the IEEE 802.21 Me- dia Independent Handover (MIH) Standard [Corujo et al. 2011]. As a result, despite being Media Independent in nature in terms of their ability to operate independently of the underlying access technology (both wired and wireless), the ETArch mobility control mechanisms [Silva et al. 2013], are currently only based on link layer features. Although the IEEE 802.21 Standard provides access to events associated with link qua- lity, (such as its ability to indicate the support and characteristics of differentiable Clas- ses of Service – CoS in the link, and minimum/maximum delay/jitter experience, among other factors), the ETArch mobility control currently triggers the handover process solely on the basis of the Received Signal Strength (RSS) of the candidate Points of Attach- ment (PoA), which will seriously restrict the scope of ETArch in future Internet scena- rios (More information about ETArch components and their relationship can be found in [Silva et al. 2013][Silva et al. 2012]).