Entity Title Architecture Extensions Towards Advanced Quality-oriented Mobility Control Capabilities Felipe Silva 12 , Jos´ e Castillo-Lema 2 Augusto Neto 2 , Fl´ avio Silva 3 , Pedro Frosi 3 , Daniel Corujo 4 , Carlos Guimar˜ aes 4 and Rui Aguiar 4 1 Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), Brazil 2 Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics (DIMAp), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil 3 Faculty of Computing (FACOM), Federal University of Uberlˆ andia, Brazil 4 Telecommunications Institute (IT), Portugal felipe.dsilva@ifrn.edu.br, josecastillo@ppgsc.ufrn.br, augusto@dimap.ufrn.br, {flavio,frosi}@facom.ufu.br, {dcorujo,cguimaraes}@av.it.pt, ruilaa@det.ua.pt Abstract—The emergence of new technologies, in addition with the popularization of mobile devices and wireless communication systems, demands a variety of requirements that current Internet is not able to comply adequately. In this scenario, the innovative information-centric Entity Title Architecture (ETArch), a Future Internet (FI) clean slate approach, was design to efficiently cope with the increasing demand of beyond-IP networking services. Nevertheless, despite all ETArch capabilities, it was not projected with reliable networking functions, which limits its operability in mobile multimedia networking, and will seriously restrict its scope in Future Internet scenarios. Therefore, our work extends ETArch mobility control with advanced quality-oriented mobility functions, to deploy mobility prediction, Point of Attachment (PoA) decision and handover setup meeting both session quality requirements of active session flows and current wireless quality conditions of neighbouring PoA candidates. The effectiveness of the proposed additions were confirmed through a preliminary evaluation carried out by MATLAB, in which we have considered distinct applications scenario, and showed that they were able to outperform the most relevant alternative solutions in terms of performance and quality of service. I. I NTRODUCTION The emergence of new technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing, in addition to the significant growth of mobile devices with multiple access capabilities, has led to a number of requirements, such as mobility and reliability, which the Internet is currently unable to satisfy effectively [1]. The attempts to enhance the Internet of today and address new emerging demands, has resulted in a sharp increase in its complexity whilst jeopardizing its performance and scalability. In this context, there have been several attempts by researchers to focus on Internet redesigns [2][3], a.k.a. Future Internet (FI), and to adopt a new approach that is completely re-architected with new services, mechanisms and protocols to deal with new capacities. Among these initiatives, the Entity Title Architecture (ETArch) [4] 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 [5], 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 [6] 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 Media Indepen- dent Handover (MIH) Standard [7]. In this way, Workspace establishment mechanisms become aware of new network connection points detected by Mobile Nodes (MN), as well as their characteristic semantics (e.g., capacity and conditions), and use this information to enhance the handover process in the network. Moreover, the network is also able to use these mechanisms to monitor network-based features (e.g., load in a cell), and handover-affected terminals to better-performing network connection points. ETArch architecture and its main components are pre- sented in Figure 1. The DTSA, that acts as an OpenFlow controller and as the Point of Service (PoS) of the network, is responsible for storing information about the existing entities (Entity Manager) and workspaces (Workspace Manager), and also handling and controlling mobility procedures (Mobility Manager). The EDOBRA Switch consists of an IEEE 802.21- enabled OpenFlow switch and the Mobile Node represents the end-user equipment, and may be equipped with one or more access technologies, either wired or wireless. More information about ETArch components and their relationship can be found in [1][4]. 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 [1], are currently only based on link layer features. Although the IEEE 802.21 Standard provides access to events associated with link quality, (such as its ability to indicate the support and characteristics of differentiable Classes of Service – CoS in the link, and min- imum/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