HomeVisor: Adapting Home Network Environments

Fratczak, Tomasz; Broadbent, Matthew; Georgopoulos, Panagiotis; Race, Nicholas

doi:10.1109/ewsdn.2013.12

Cited by 22 publications

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“…Similar to [13], HomeVisor [11] offers an SDN-based management tool for home network enabling remote administration and troubleshooting via a high-level network policies. [8] presents an intuitive interaction of user with underlying network to have control over home network to support quality of different applications.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personalizing the home network experience using cloud-based SDN

Gharakheili

Bass²,

Exton

et al. 2014

Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014

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Home networks are becoming increasingly rich in devices and applications, but continue to share the broadband link in a neutral way. We believe the time is ripe to personalize the home network experience, allowing a household to differentiate its users (e.g. father's laptop prioritized over kid's iPad) and services (e.g. video streaming prioritized over downloading). In this paper we argue that SDN provides a way to automate self-customization by households, while cloud-based delivery simplifies subscriber management. We develop an architecture comprising a cloudbased front-end portal and SDN-based back-end APIs, and show how these can be used by the subscriber to improve streamingvideo (YouTube) quality and video conferencing (Skype) experience, and to permit device-specific parental controls (e.g. Facebook access). We prototype and validate our solution in a platform comprising the Floodlight controller and OVS switches. Lastly, we evaluate our solutions via experiments of realistic scenarios to quantify the benefits in terms of improved quality of experience and new features for the user.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personalizing the home network experience using cloud-based SDN

Gharakheili

Bass²,

Exton

et al. 2014

Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014

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“…Similarly, Kim et al [21] proposed to control the usage of different persons at home based on user pre-defined cap usage rules. Other studies [22,23] proposed an SDN revisit of the home router to provide user-friendly management interfaces and services, such as providing a separate slice for guest devices, or supporting user-controlled device onboarding. The Future Spaces solution addresses these different aspects, by providing simple user controls and automation to pilot the home network through slicing.…”

Section: Context and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Future Spaces: Reinventing the Home Network for Better Security and Automation in the IoT Era

Boussard

Bui

Douville

et al. 2018

Sensors

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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are complex systems comprising computation, physical, and networking assets. Used in various domains such as manufacturing, agriculture, vehicles, etc., they blend the control of the virtual and physical worlds. Smart homes are a peculiar type of CPS where the local networking fundamentals have seen little evolution in the past decades, while the context in which home networks operate has drastically evolved. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number and diversity of devices connected to our home networks are exploding. Some of those devices are poorly secured and put users’ data privacy and security at risk. At the same time, administrating a home network has remained a tedious chore, requiring skills from un-savvy users. We present Future Spaces, an end-to-end hardware-software prototype providing fine-grained control over IoT connectivity to enable easy and secure management of smart homes. Relying on Software-Defined Networking-enabled home gateways and the virtualization of network functions in the cloud, we achieve advanced networking security and automation through the definition of isolated, usage-oriented slices. This disrupts how users discover, control and share their connected assets across multiple domains, smoothly adapting to various usage contexts.

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“…In contrast to allowing users to manage their own networks, an approach to delegate the residential network management to third‐party experts is proposed. HomeVisor proposes to split the residential network into slices. Each slice is under the management of a specific third party, alleviating the residential user from the burden of management tasks.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

et al. 2017

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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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HomeVisor: Adapting Home Network Environments

Cited by 22 publications

References 17 publications

Personalizing the home network experience using cloud-based SDN

Personalizing the home network experience using cloud-based SDN

Future Spaces: Reinventing the Home Network for Better Security and Automation in the IoT Era

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

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