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Mobile Oriented Future Internet (MOFI): Architectural Designs and Experimentations
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Mobile Oriented Future Internet (MOFI): Architectural Designs and Experimentations

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".

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Prof. Dr. Seok-Joo Koh

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School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702701, Korea
Interests: Future Internet; Internet of Things; mobility management; multicasting; standardization
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Dear Colleagues,

With the explosive growth of smart phones and Internet-of-Things (IoT) services, mobility management is becoming one of the key challenging issues for future Internet. As part of mobile-oriented Future Internet (MOFI), it is expected that there will be a large number of devices/users in a variety of heterogeneous mobile/wireless/sensor/vehicular networks. To support Internet mobility, a lot of protocols have so far been proposed, which include PMIP, HIP, LISP, ILNP, etc. However, these works are not enough to provide mobility management in the MOFI environment. We may also consider recently-proposed technologies, such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Named Data Networking (NDN), for MOFI

This Special Issue focuses on new concepts or models, architectural design, implementation, experimentation for MOFI, together with analysis of the existing mobility management schemes. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Analysis of existing mobility protocols (e. g., PMIP, HIP, etc) from the Future Internet perspective
  • Requirements and design considerations for Mobile Oriented Future Internet
  • Architectural design and experimentation for Mobile Oriented Future Internet
  • Recent R&D activities and testbed experimentations for Future Internet (e.g., EU FP7 project)
  • Recent activities on International Standardizations for Future Internet in ITU, ISO, IETF, 3GPP, etc.
  • Mobility management in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) environment
  • New model or approach for Mobile Oriented Future Internet
  • Use of new technologies (e. g., SDN, NDN, etc.) for Mobile Oriented Future Internet

Prof. Dr. Seok-Joo Koh
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Mobile Oriented Future Internet (MOFI): Architectural Designs and Experimentations
by Seok-Joo Koh
Electronics 2020, 9(4), 682; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9040682 - 23 Apr 2020
Cited by 2 | Viewed by 1803
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With the explosive growth of smart phones and Internet-of-Things (IoT) services, the effective support of seamless mobility for a variety of mobile devices and users is becoming one of the key challenging issues [...] Full article
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Distributed Identifier-Locator Mapping Management in Mobile ILNP Networks
by Moneeb Gohar, Jin-Ghoo Choi, Waleed Ahmed, Arif Ur Rahman, Muhammad Muzammal and Seok-Joo Koh
Electronics 2020, 9(1), 58; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9010058 - 31 Dec 2019
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 2421
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In the Identifier Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) networks, the existing mobility control schemes based on the centralized entity, called the Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS) server, such that all the control traffic is processed at the DDNS server. However, the centralized mobility schemes [...] Read more.
In the Identifier Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) networks, the existing mobility control schemes based on the centralized entity, called the Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS) server, such that all the control traffic is processed at the DDNS server. However, the centralized mobility schemes have significant limitations, such as control traffic overhead at the server and large handover delay. In order to resolve these issues, we propose a new mobility control scheme for ILNP networks, which manages the identifier-locators (ID-LOCs) in the fully distributed manner. In our scheme, each domain has a dedicated mobile DDNS (m-DDNS) server at the site border router (SBR). The m-DDNS server maintains two databases; i.e., home host register (HHR) and visiting host register (VHR), to support the roaming of mobile hosts. When a mobile host roams into a domain, the m-DDNS server in the visiting domain registers the host’s ID-LOC in the VHR and requests the update of HHR to the m-DDNS server in the home domain. Since the m-DDNS servers communicate each other directly, the ID-LOC mappings are managed without involvement of any central entities. We analyzed our proposed mobility scheme via numerical analysis and compared its performance with those of existing schemes. Numerical results showed that our scheme outperforms the existing mobility control schemes substantially in terms of control traffic overhead at the servers, total transmission delay and handover delay. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Oriented Future Internet (MOFI): Architectural Designs and Experimentations)
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SmartX Box: Virtualized Hyper-Converged Resources for Building an Affordable Playground
by Aris Cahyadi Risdianto, Muhammad Usman and JongWon Kim
Electronics 2019, 8(11), 1242; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8111242 - 30 Oct 2019
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In this paper, we present our proposals and efforts for building an affordable playground (i.e., miniaturized testbed) for Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-Cloud experiments by using hyper-converged SmartX Boxes that are distributed across multiple sites. Each SmartX Box consists of several virtualized functions that are [...] Read more.
In this paper, we present our proposals and efforts for building an affordable playground (i.e., miniaturized testbed) for Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-Cloud experiments by using hyper-converged SmartX Boxes that are distributed across multiple sites. Each SmartX Box consists of several virtualized functions that are categorized into SDN and cloud functions. Multiple SmartX Boxes are deployed and inter-connected through SDN to build multi-site distributed cloud playground resources. The resulting deployment integrates both cloud multi-tenancy and SDN-based slicing, which allow developers to run experiments and operators to monitor resources in a distributed SDN-cloud playground. It also describes how the hyper-converged SmartX Box can increase the affordability of the playground deployment. Thus, the analysis result shows the efficiency of SmartX Box for building a distributed playground by providing semi-automated DevOps-style resource provisioning. Full article
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Phantom: Towards Vendor-Agnostic Resource Consolidation in Cloud Environments
by Aaqif Afzaal Abbasi, Mohammed A. A. Al-qaness, Mohamed Abd Elaziz, Ammar Hawbani, Ahmed A. Ewees, Sameen Javed and Sunghwan Kim
Electronics 2019, 8(10), 1183; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8101183 - 18 Oct 2019
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Mobile-oriented internet technologies such as mobile cloud computing are gaining wider popularity in the IT industry. These technologies are aimed at improving the user internet usage experience by employing state-of-the-art technologies or their combination. One of the most important parts of modern mobile-oriented [...] Read more.
Mobile-oriented internet technologies such as mobile cloud computing are gaining wider popularity in the IT industry. These technologies are aimed at improving the user internet usage experience by employing state-of-the-art technologies or their combination. One of the most important parts of modern mobile-oriented future internet is cloud computing. Modern mobile devices use cloud computing technology to host, share and store data on the network. This helps mobile users to avail different internet services in a simple, cost-effective and easy way. In this paper, we shall discuss the issues in mobile cloud resource management followed by a vendor-agnostic resource consolidation approach named Phantom, to improve the resource allocation challenges in mobile cloud environments. The proposed scheme exploits software-defined networks (SDNs) to introduce vendor-agnostic concept and utilizes a graph-theoretic approach to achieve its objectives. Simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed approach in improving application service response time. Full article
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A Novel Left-Turn Signal Control Method for Improving Intersection Capacity in a Connected Vehicle Environment
by Chuanxiang Ren, Jinbo Wang, Lingqiao Qin, Shen Li and Yang Cheng
Electronics 2019, 8(9), 1058; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8091058 - 19 Sep 2019
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Setting up an exclusive left-turn lane and corresponding signal phase for intersection traffic safety and efficiency will decrease the capacity of the intersection when there are less or no left-turn movements. This is especially true during rush hours because of the ineffective use [...] Read more.
Setting up an exclusive left-turn lane and corresponding signal phase for intersection traffic safety and efficiency will decrease the capacity of the intersection when there are less or no left-turn movements. This is especially true during rush hours because of the ineffective use of left-turn lane space and signal phase duration. With the advantages of vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, a novel intersection signal control model is proposed which sets up variable lane direction arrow marking and turns the left-turn lane into a controllable shared lane for left-turn and through movements. The new intersection signal control model and its control strategy are presented and simulated using field data. After comparison with two other intersection control models and control strategies, the new model is validated to improve the intersection capacity in rush hours. Besides, variable lane lines and the corresponding control method are designed and combined with the left-turn waiting area to overcome the shortcomings of the proposed intersection signal control model and control strategy. Full article
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SAND/3: SDN-Assisted Novel QoE Control Method for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP/3
by Luis Guillen, Satoru Izumi, Toru Abe and Takuo Suganuma
Electronics 2019, 8(8), 864; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8080864 - 04 Aug 2019
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Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is a widely used standard for video content delivery. Video traffic, most of which is generated from mobile devices, is shortly to become the most significant part of Internet traffic. Current DASH solutions only consider either client- [...] Read more.
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is a widely used standard for video content delivery. Video traffic, most of which is generated from mobile devices, is shortly to become the most significant part of Internet traffic. Current DASH solutions only consider either client- or server-side optimization, leaving other components in DASH (e.g., at the transport layer) to default solutions that cause a performance bottleneck. In that regard, although it is assumed that HTTP must be necessarily transported on top of TCP, with the latest introduction of HTTP/3, it is time to re-evaluate its effects on DASH. The most substantial change in HTTP/3 is having Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) as its primary underlying transport protocol. However, little is still know about the effects on standard DASH client-based adaption algorithms when exposed to the future HTTP/3. In this paper, we present SAND/3, an SDN (Software Defined Networking)-based Quality of Experience (QoE) control method for DASH over HTTP/3. Since the official deployment of HTTP/3 has not been released yet, we used the current implementation of Google QUIC. Preliminary results show that, by applying SAND/3, which combines information from different layers orchestrated by SDN to select the best QoE, we can obtain steadier media throughput, reduce the number of quality shifts in at least 40%, increase the amount downloaded content at least 20%, and minimize video interruptions compared to the current implementations regardless of the client adaption algorithm. Full article
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Mobile-Oriented Future Internet: Implementation and Experimentations over EU–Korea Testbed
by Ji-In Kim, Nak-Jung Choi, Tae-Wan You, Heeyoung Jung, Young-Woo Kwon and Seok-Joo Koh
Electronics 2019, 8(3), 338; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8030338 - 20 Mar 2019
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Today’s mobility management (MM) architectures, such as Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) and Proxy Mobile IP, feature integration of data and control planes, as well as centralized mobility control. In the existing architecture, however, the tight integration of the data and control planes can [...] Read more.
Today’s mobility management (MM) architectures, such as Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) and Proxy Mobile IP, feature integration of data and control planes, as well as centralized mobility control. In the existing architecture, however, the tight integration of the data and control planes can induce a non-optimal routing path, because data packets are delivered via a central mobility agent, such as Home Agent and Local Mobility Anchor. Furthermore, the centralized mobility control mechanism tends to increase traffic overhead due to the processing of both data and control packets at a central agent. To address these problems, a new Internet architecture for the future mobile network was proposed, named Mobile-Oriented Future Internet (MOFI). The MOFI architecture was mainly designed as follows: (1) separation of data and control planes for getting an optimal data path; (2) distributed identifier–locator mapping control for alleviating traffic overhead at a central agent. In this article, we investigate the validity of the MOFI architecture through implementation and experimentations over the European Union (EU)–Korea testbed network. For this purpose, the MOFI architecture is implemented using OpenFlow and Click Modular Router over a Linux platform, and then it is evaluated over the locally and internationally configured EU–Korea testbed network. In particular, we operate two realistic communication scenarios over the EU–Korea testbed network. From the experimentation results, we can see that the proposed MOFI architecture can not only provide the mobility management efficiently, but also support the backward compatibility for the current IP version 6 (IPv6) applications and an Internet Protocol network. Full article
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TARCS: A Topology Change Aware-Based Routing Protocol Choosing Scheme of FANETs
by Jie Hong and Dehai Zhang
Electronics 2019, 8(3), 274; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8030274 - 02 Mar 2019
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The rapid change of topology is one of the most important factors affecting the performance of the routing protocols of flying ad hoc networks (FANETs). A routing scheme suitable for highly dynamic mobile ad hoc networks is proposed for the rapid change of [...] Read more.
The rapid change of topology is one of the most important factors affecting the performance of the routing protocols of flying ad hoc networks (FANETs). A routing scheme suitable for highly dynamic mobile ad hoc networks is proposed for the rapid change of topology in complex scenarios. In the scheme moving nodes sense changes of the surrounding network topology periodically, and the current mobile scenario is confirmed according to the perceived result. Furthermore, a suitable routing protocol is selected for maintaining network performances at a high level. The concerned performance metrics are packet delivery ratio, network throughput, average end-to-end delay and average jitter. The experiments combine the random waypoint model, the reference point group mobility model and the pursue model to a chain scenario, and simulate the large changes of the network topology. Results show that an appropriate routing scheme can adapt to rapid changes in network topology and effectively improve network performance. Full article
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