Research and experimentation with the HIMALIS network architecture for future internet

There are many projects in the search for Future Internet (FI), supported by many countries and with different fundamental targets. This paper is centered around the HIMALIS architecture proposed as part of the AKARI project by the NICT of Japan. We describe this architecture and discuss its research and experimentation capabilities, finally showing its behavior in a scenario with heterogeneous underlying networks and handover events (mobility).