Design And Implementation Of MobilityFirst Future Internet Testbed

Recently Future Internet research has attracted enormous attentions towards the design of clean slate Future Internet architecture.A large number of research projects have been established by National Science Foundation's(NSF),Future Internet Architecture(FIA)program in this area.One of these projects is MobilityFirst,which recognizes the predominance of mobile networking and aims to address the challenges of this paradigm shift.Future Internet architectures projects are usually experimentally deployed on large scale experimental testbeds,in order to test and evaluate the properties of new architecture and protocols.Currently only some specific experiments,like routing and name resolution scalability in MobilityFirst architecture have been performed over the ORBIT and GENI platforms.In order to move from this experimental networking to technology trials with real-world users and applications,deployment of alternative testbeds is necessary,where the network participants can easily set up new resources on their own premises and the network resources not only independently used inside the specific region or country but also will be shared for international co-operation.In this thesis,MobilityFirst inter-domain testbed is designed and deployed on Future Networks Laboratory,University of Science and Technology of China,China and ORBIT,WINLAB Rutgers University,USA.The proposed testbed provides a real world experimental environment for MobilityFirst network and capable to run/implement MobilityFirst video streaming services.Next,for communication between long distance MobilityFirst networks through current networking protocols(TCP),MobilityFirst proxies(MF-proxy and UDP-proxy)are designed and implemented.In our proposed testbed the MF proxies are used to deliver MF packets between USTC and WINLAB domain through TCP based SSH tunnel,while the UDP proxies are used for GNRS Request/Response between GNRS server and MF routers in remote domain.Furthermore,the performance of testbed was tested on transmission delay,mobility,reliability and other properties and the results and experience obtained from experiments with MobilityFirst prototype over proposed testbed are presented.Another important aspect of this thesis is the design of streaming video transmission system based on Mplayer and LIVE555,that supports the MobilityFirst protocol stack to realize video streaming in MobilityFirst network and its implementation over proposed MobilityFirst testbed.The experimental results show that,the proposed testbed can support the transmission of high-throughput real-time data packets,further illustrate that the testbed can be use in realistic environments with real world users and applications.