Enhancement of information object management tool about Audio-video/ network status/ QoS content in OpenNetInf

This paper presents new facilities added to the existing Information Object (IO) Management Tool used in the open-source implementation of NetInf (Network of Information). The project was realized within a virtual machine running Ubuntu 10.10 and the contributions to the source code developed in Eclipse environment refer to the following: a) a more friendly way to introduce the search criteria, by suggesting the sub-attributes and by providing the results organized as tables; b) a new mechanism to create dedicated IOs about audio-video, network status and QoS content; c) automatic publishing of objects concerning the network configurations; d) graphical representation of statistics about QoS parameters. The enhancements proposed herein are useful for business decisions in networking, following the architecture proposed in FP7-4WARD project. However we tried to demonstrate the deployment of cross-layer QoS techniques in the Future Internet with the help of information-centric approaches (NetInf being one possible solution).