On the analysis of multicast traffic over the Entity Title Architecture

New applications bring a new set of requirements that the Internet is not able to satisfy in a proper way. Internet architecture must be reviewed and researchers from all over the world are engaged in the design of a new Internet. Software Defined Networking (SDN), which is materialized in OpenFlow, represents an extraordinary opportunity to rethink computer networks. In this paper, taking advantage of SDN and the concepts of our previous work regarding the Entity Title Model, we present a proof of concept OpenFlow based implementation of the Entity Title Architecture. It is a clean slate network architecture for future networks where multicast and mobility are seamlessly provided. By using this implementation, we describe some experiments conducted and present a comparison between a video application implemented first, using the TCP/IP stack and then using our architecture focusing on its multicast capabilities and by consequently reducing bandwidth consumption. The results presented in this paper show that this consumption near the source by using our architecture remains constant while using TCP/IP it increases monotonically.