QoS harmonization for home networks

Abstract

A modern home could contain a large variety of devices and all of them should be able to work together so as to bring a rich experience to the users. Quality of service (QoS) is a critical factor for measuring user satisfaction. It represents the ability to provide different priorities based on the type of the data flows or to guarantee a certain quality of performance to a particular service. Different devices may follow different protocols and each protocol has its own QoS management scheme. These QoS schemes are not necessarily compatible with one another and the inconsistency will significantly impair their efficacy. In this paper, we propose a harmonized protocol for home networks, which unifies all other protocols and solves the inconsistency problem effectively. IEEE Broadband Multimedia Symposium 2010This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part without payment of fee is granted for nonprofit educational and research purposes provided that all such whole or partial copies include the following: a notice that such copying is by permission of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.; an acknowledgment of the authors and individual contributions to the work; and all applicable portions of the copyright notice. Copying, reproduction, or republishing for any other purpose shall require a license with payment of fee to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. mm2010-961 Abstract-A modern home could contain a large variety of devices and all of them should be able to work together so as to bring a rich experience to the users. Quality of service (QoS) is a critical factor for measuring user satisfaction. It represents the ability to provide different priorities based on the type of the data flows or to guarantee a certain quality of performance to a particular service. Different devices may follow different protocols and each protocol has its own QoS management scheme. These QoS schemes are not necessarily compatible with one another and the inconsistency will significantly impair their efficacy. In this paper, we propose a harmonized protocol for home network, which unifies all other protocols and solves the inconsistency problem effectively.

Enhanced Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Intelligent Home Networks

“…This reduced delay duration packet transmission between nodes in the network, eliminating starvation and ensured optimized performance of intelligent home networks irrespective of the increase in several devices and services into it. In [11] a home network QoS harmonization algorithm was used. This algorithm used a class-based communication protocol.…”