Since 2006, a professor and some students started to think about a new type of networking.
At December 2009, a paper called "Horizontal Address Ontology in Internet Architecture" was published. This work proposed the basic ideas about this new networking.
By July, 2010 we get in touch with OpenFlow and realized that OpenFlow (and SDN) could be used for this purpose to bring this ideas to life. We concluded that our vision of the network matches naturally with SDN abstractions and since there we get deeper into OpenFlow and SDN.
By 2011, we participate in a contest organized by MyFire EU project and we had a proposal selected by experimentation at OFELIA Test bed.
At 2012, we had a proposal accepted at the Second OFELIA Open Call, called EDOBRA (Extending and Deploying OFELIA in Brazil) in partnership with USP (University of São Paulo) and the Instituto de Telecomunições (IT) from Aveiro, Portugal
At 2013, we presented ETArch (Entity Title Architecture), a clean slate network architecture built on top of OpenFlow.
One of the results our work during EDOBRA (Openflow + IEEE 802.21) was selected as an Academic demo for ONS2014, at February 2014.
Since August 2014, we are partner of FIWARE FP7 project and started the deployment of a FIWARE Lab node at Uberlândia, MG. One of the objectives is create prototype systems, based on innovative solutions in order to leverage the existing Future Internet Architectures currently deployed, then bringing the Future Internet results close to the market, focusing the innovation that Future Internet can enable.
Presentation of the talk "The Road Towards Future Internet Deployment" at the Florida International University (FIU). This talk addresses some key topics in this area and present our vision and ongoing research in order collaborate with deployment of the Future Internet.
Prof. Flávio Silva presented an joint work in collaboration with partners from UFRN. The work presents an extension to the Mobility Manager, a software component of the ETARCH control plane. The extension, called Quality-oriented Mobility Management Approach (QoMMA), supports quality-oriented handover management
At October, 15 until 16, Prof. Flávio Silva participated in the SwitchOn Workshop at São Paulo presenting the talk “Future Internet Deployment: The Path Ahead”.
MEHAR professors participate in the First Workshop to Foster Brazil-USA-Europe Research Collaborations on Telecommunication Networks.
Presentation of research work that shows the initial results of the deployment of the Entity Title Architeture (ETArch) at a real operator, ALGAR Telecom, headquarted in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil