Experiences with Testbed Evaluation of the MobilityFirst Future Internet Architecture

This paper reports results and experiences from the validation process performed to experimentally evaluate the design of the Future Internet Architecture MobilityFirst. Next, we discuss possible evaluation strategies that take into account the desired scale and degree of realism necessary for validation. Specific examples of experimental evaluations for the MobilityFirst architecture running on the ORBIT and GENI testbed are given. These include routing and name resolution scalability experiments on ORBIT, service-level evaluations on GENI, and real world experimentation with end-users using both ORBIT and GENI capabilities. Selected results from these experiments are presented and discussed in context of MobilityFirst evaluation goals.