A Configuration Service for Home Networks

Dimosthenis Pediaditakis, Anandha Gopalan, Naranker Dulay and Morris Sloman



Abstract:

As the complexity and size of home networks increases, so does the need for better management support for non-expert home users. In this paper we describe an extensible policy-based configuration service that allows the underlying networking infrastructure to be viewed, verified and reconfigured at a higher-level of abstraction. The aim is ensure that configuration changes in network infrastructure do not result in problematic setups and to allow user-centric tools to operate at a higher-level of abstraction. Our implementation compiles configuration tasks to host/device level commands and supports deployment to multiple heterogeneous devices. We demonstrate and evaluate our approach, using access control and bandwidth sharing as examples of home management tasks.