Developing a NovaGenesis Architecture Model for
Service Oriented Future Internet and IoT: An
Advanced Transportation System Scenario
Antonio Marcos Alberti (IEEE Member)
Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações - Inatel
P.O. Box 05 - 37540-000
Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil
alberti@inatel.br
Dhananjay Singh (IEEE Member)
Department of Electronics Engineering
Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies
Global Campus: Yongin, South Korea
dsingh@hufs.ac.kr
Abstract— We are designing a NovaGenesis Architecture
Model to support Future Internet services, which are going to
address some fundamental issues of the Internet of Things, such
as address resolution, mobility, routing, scalability, security, and
network control. The aim is to support trillion of things connect
to the Internet. In NovaGenesis, we have presented a set of dis-
tributed systems where any information processing is seen as
service. Services organize themselves based on names and agree-
ments to meet semantics rich goals, policies, regulations, etc.
Even networking functionalities are considered as services. Every
existence could have one or more names: natural language names
or self-certifying names. All the communication, processing, and
storage are name-oriented. The protocol stacks are built on de-
mand in a contract-based way. Hence, we can state that NovaGe-
nesis architecture could be an alternative solution for current
internet oriented innovations in a scalable manner. The aim of
this architecture is the coverage of Internet and sensors oriented
smart objects. The paper discusses the proposed model in the
context of an Advanced Rural Transportation System.
Keywords— Future Internet; Service-Oriented Design; Internet
of Things; Name-Oriented Design; Software-Defined Networking;
ID/LOC splitting; NovaGenesis Architecture.
I. INTRODUCTION
Today's Internet technology was deployed in the 1970s. And
the fact is that the scale of the Internet and other related net-
working technologies have grown widely since then, giving
rise to significant architectural problems [1][6]. Internet access
is facing the big issue of mobility support for scalable net-
works, which is mainly caused by the dual role of the IP ad-
dress. The IP address is not only used as a host Identifier (ID)
for the upper layers of the TCP/IP model, but also as a host
Locator (LOC) for datagram delivery [2]. Therefore, when a
host moves from a network to another, the locator changes to
allow appropriate packet transfer. However, the upper layers
can experiment inconsistencies, since the host ID has changed
as well. Making an analogy with cars, it's like changing the
plate of a car every time it moves to a different city. By this
we get to know that currently Internet has structured IP-
addresses where both the host ID and its LOC information are
overloaded. Hence, host mobility support and the scalability of
ID/LOC splitting schemes are two crucial concerning issues
for future generations of wireless networks [1]. The quest for
flexible and efficient ID/LOC mapping systems is still prevail-
ing, meaning not resolved [2][3][4].
Another issue is to support global connectivity over trillions
of devices. For this, Future Internet (FI) [9][11] should also
accommodate large scale interoperability and convergence of
wired and wireless networking technologies. One can expect a
huge diversity of smart devices in the Internet of Things (IoT)
[1][14][15], with different hardware and software capabilities.
Thus, to address the interoperability of these sensorial and
actuating systems is primordial. Also, sensors and actuators
could be connected via wireless or wired connections. There-
fore, a convergent access network solution for IoT is also a
requirement.
This army of devices will also produce a huge amount of
private, sensible information [18], for example a car location
and its status. Therefore, designs require built-in, scalable,
energy-aware support for security and privacy. Another pre-
requirement is the formation and management of devices’ trust
networks. A trust network is “social alliance” of devices,
which maintain reputation-based cooperation. It is supported
by the idea of “social devices” [18], where device relates to
other peer devices exchanging contextualized information in a
timeness manner.
The management and control of this huge amount of devices
is also a big issue. One cannot expect to manage or control
thousands of devices in a smart home manually. The “social
devices” need to cooperate each other to achieve objectives,
obeying rules and regulations [18]. Also, devices need to be
software-defined to facilitate configuration, organization, op-
timization, healing, etc. [19]. However, the convergence of
autonomic [18][1] and software-defined [19] management and
control is almost unexplored by research right now.
To address the aforementioned factors in the FI, including
the IoT scope, we are developing NovaGenesis (NG) architec-
ture [17]. The aim is to accommodate those pre-requirements
to support from billions to trillions of devices. Several re-
search communities have proposed service oriented architec-
ture mechanisms to deal with IoT and FI devices mobility and
the separation of IDs/LOCs [2-4]; security, privacy, and trust
[18]; and management and control of devices [1][19]. Howev-
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