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.