On the design of a general multiple-namespace system for future networks

Over the past few years, many architectures have been proposed for the future Internet. Nevertheless, such new schemes usually require existing systems to migrate to their proposed namespaces, which may compromise the adoption of new technologies. In addition, we note that most existing networked systems have their own namespaces, but inter-operation among them is rather static and lacks of flexibility to quickly provision efficient services. To address these issues, we propose a novel framework, namely, general multiple-namespace (GMN), to facilitate inter-operation of systems with different namespaces, and to quickly provision services. In this demo, we develop a testbed to demonstrate the potentials of the GMN framework. In particular, we first show how the GMN framework can enable efficient connection of two users who are using the same instant messaging (IM) service. Next, we illustrate how the GMN can facilitate the communications between two users who are using different IM services. At last, we will demonstrate how the GMN can efficiently support the device switching in the aforementioned application scenarios.