Home Network Management Policies: Putting the User in the Loop

Pediaditakis, Dimosthenis; Gopalan, Anandha; Dulay, Naranker; Sloman, Morris; Lodge, Tom

doi:10.1109/policy.2012.12

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“…Ethnographic studies, such as [17], show that home network management is universally problematic, and despite recent research efforts [3], [9], [11], [16], [21], there is little in terms of commercial applications that address this interface gap between home networking hardware and its users. Grinter et al [6] notes that despite some technological similarities between a home network and a small, commercial office network, the behaviour of the network's users and their interaction with the computer and networking hardware varies greatly.…”

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HomeVisor: Adapting Home Network Environments

Fratczak

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Georgopoulos

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2013 Second European Workshop on Software Defined Networks

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This paper considers SDN, and OpenFlow in particular, as technology to develop the next generation of more flexible, configurable and automated home networks. We identify the problems with the current state of the art in home networking, which includes a lack of user engagement in home network maintenance and configuration, Internet bandwidth limitations, and a lack of ISP reconfiguration and troubleshooting tools. We propose HomeVisor; a novel remote home network management tool. In this paper, we evaluate HomeVisor's ability to outsource control to an entity outside the home network. This includes the overhead of multiple slices within the home, and the effect of controller latency on network performance.

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Section: A Domestic Network Problemsmentioning

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“…Inter-packet delay measurements in one slice setup Inter-packet delay measurements in three slice setup performance was deemed statistically significant by t-test analysis:• 1 slice versus 2 slices: t = 2.0227, p-value = 0.04311 • 1 slice versus 3 slices: t = 12.4415, p-value <2.2e-16 …”

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Georgopoulos

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2013 Second European Workshop on Software Defined Networks

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“…This model is aligned with the network function virtualization (NFV) trend, which proposes that network functions traditionally embedded in specialized hardware are to be implemented by software by using virtualization technologies over commercial off‐the‐shelf servers . Other approaches propose next‐generation RGWs to take advantage of the accurate programmability introduced by the software‐defined networking (SDN) paradigm . The ability of SDN to directly insert detailed traffic flows on the data plane increases the flexibility to handle the residential network traffic .…”

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“…4 Other approaches propose next-generation RGWs to take advantage of the accurate programmability introduced by the software-defined networking (SDN) paradigm. 5 The ability of SDN to directly insert detailed traffic flows on the data plane increases the flexibility to handle the residential network traffic. 6 Similarly, the centralization of the control plane provides an opportunity to leverage the computational resources of the ISP to develop sophisticated applications to control the data plane.…”

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A software‐defined networking approach to improve service provision in residential networks

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Summary Within the Internet service provider landscape, the residential gateway (RGW) plays a key role in service provision. The RGW should be an enabler for the provision of new and better services for residential users, but it is often instead an obstacle for innovation. This paper discusses how to improve the provision of innovative services and to increase the usability of residential networks by upgrading the residential gateway in alignment with the current paradigms of software‐defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization. In this approach, SDN contributes by providing a fine‐grained control of the traffic and network function virtualization contributes by outsourcing traditional and specialized network functions running inside the RGW like routing or network address translation to the Internet service provider premises. Based on this approach, a management framework has been designed by considering 2 aspects: the involvement of the residential user in the management tasks through the provision of network management applications and the need to decouple network applications from the underlying SDN controller technology to encourage the development of innovative network applications. In addition, a virtualized management and networking domain has been defined to complement the approach and leverage cloud technologies. The advantages and challenges of this approach are analyzed based on a proof of concept development.

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“…Pediaditakis et al [64] y Mortier et al [65] proponen un RGW basado en Linux compuesto por un Open vSwitch (OVS 35 ) controlado por OpenFlow y un controlador NOX. En esta configuración, tanto el plano de datos como el de control están co-ubicados en el mismo dispositivo, proporcionando un RGW basado en SDN "todo en uno".…”

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Contribución a las arquitecturas de virtualización de funciones de red y redes definidas por software aplicadas a las redes residenciales con gestión centrada en el usuario

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Ricardo²

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This dissertation addresses three specific problems found nowadays in residential networks. Firstly, the restricted usability that residential networks offer due to the fact that a technical knowledge, which the majority of users lack, is required to exert management tasks. Secondly, the high degree of heterogeneity of the residential environment in terms of user profiles, end devices and network technologies. And thirdly, the limited flexibility of current network equipment to improve the connectivity service provided by the residential network, which makes it difficult to add new network functionalities required by today's multimedia services. According to the state of the art, the problems described above are the result of the Internet-like network model established for the residential network, which relies on a good level of technical expertise of administrators. Added to this is the lack of flexibility that current networking model presents to evolve a network service and adapt it to the dynamic, demanding and diverse requirements of, for example, multimedia applications and enterprise network services. In this context, the first contribution of this dissertation is the design of a new management architecture for residential networks that takes advantage of the new paradigms of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) to allow using a user-centric approach and to facilitate its implementation. In this architecture, users actively participate in the management tasks of their own networks by using Residential Network Management applications, referred to as "RENEMA apps". These apps, which are adapted to the skills of an average user, allow customizing the network based on the user's preferences, improving the usability of the network and facing the high degree of heterogeneity that the residential environment presents. On the other hand, to facilitate the implementation of the usercentric approach, the architecture provides different Residential Network Services (RENESEs) to abstract the low-level network configuration and monitoring. Thus, RENEMA apps developers would not have to cope with them.

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Home Network Management Policies: Putting the User in the Loop

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HomeVisor: Adapting Home Network Environments

HomeVisor: Adapting Home Network Environments

A software‐defined networking approach to improve service provision in residential networks

Contribución a las arquitecturas de virtualización de funciones de red y redes definidas por software aplicadas a las redes residenciales con gestión centrada en el usuario

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