An information plane architecture supporting home network management

Sventek, J. et al. (2011) An information plane architecture supporting home network management. In: 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Dublin, Ireland, 23-27 May 2011,

Abstract

Home networks have evolved to become small-scale versions of enterprise networks. The tools for visualizing and managing such networks are primitive and continue to require networked systems expertise on the part of the home user. As a result, non-expert home users must manually manage non-obvious aspects of the network ‐ e.g., MAC address filtering, network masks, and firewall rules, using these primitive tools. The Homework information plane architecture uses stream database concepts to generate derived events from streams of raw events. This supports a variety of visualization and monitoring techniques, and also enables construction of a closed-loop, policy-based management system. This paper describes the information plane architecture and its associated policy-based management infrastructure. Exemplar visualization and closed-loop management applications enabled by the resulting system (tuned to the skills of non-expert home users) are discussed.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Koliousis, Mr Alexandros and Sharma, Mr Oliver and Sventek, Professor Joseph
• Authors: Sventek, J., Koliousis, A., Sharma, O., Dulay, N., Pediaditakis, D., Sloman, M., Rodden, T., Lodge, T., Bedwell, B., Glover, K., and Mortier, R.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Research Group: Embedded, Networked and Distributed Systems
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2012 The Authors
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the authors

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
47810	1	Homework: Shaping future user centred domestic infrastructures	Joseph Sventek	Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)	EP/F064225/1	SCHOOL OF COMPUTING SCIENCE