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.