Home Network Management Policies: Putting the User in
the Loop
Dimosthenis Pediaditakis, Anandha Gopalan,
Naranker Dulay, Morris Sloman, and Tom Lodge
Abstract:
Home networks are becoming increasingly complex but existing management
solutions are not simple to use since they are not tailored to the needs
of typical home-users. In this paper we present a new approach to home
network management that allows users to formulate quite sophisticated
"comic-strip" policies using an attractive iPad application. The
policies are based on the management wishes of home users elicited in a
user study. Comic-strip policies are passed to a Policy engine running
on a new Home Network Router designed to facilitate a variety of
management tasks. We illustrate our approach via a number end-to-end
experiments in an actual home deployment, using our prototype
implementation.