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Although home wireless networks (WiFi) are increasingly becoming performance bottlenecks, there are no research studies based on long-running field deployments that document this phenomenon. Given both public and private investment in broadband Internet ...

To maintain network efficiency of a home network, it is crucial to moderately distribute limited data throughput and bandwidth resources to various home devices and services that require different network resource provisions. This paper accounts for QoS ...

We present the results of a preliminary study into the usability of troubleshooting terminology around home computer networks. Forty-seven participants classified 29 terms, selected from interview transcripts and online help forums, in an open card ...

Research around computer networks has been rapidly expanding as the Internet becomes more prevalent in day-to-day life. Despite this rapid expansion in academic interest, computer networks, especially home networks, remain a challenge for inexperienced ...

Managed services for the home have traditionally been shunned by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as having high overheads and low margins. In this paper we argue that the maturing ecosystem around Software Defined Networking (SDN) changes the equation,...

The Internet of Things (IoT) revolution has brought millions of small, low-cost, connected devices into our homes, cities, infrastructure, and more. However, these devices are often plagued by security vulnerabilities that pose threats to user privacy ...

As ISPs face IPv4 address scarcity they increasingly turn to network address translation (NAT) to accommodate the address needs of their customers. Recently, ISPs have moved beyond employing NATs only directly at individual customers and instead begun ...

Wi-Fi is the preferred way of accessing the Internet for many devices at home, but it is vulnerable to performance problems. The analysis of Wi-Fi quality metrics such as RSSI or PHY rate may indicate a number of problems, but users may not notice many ...

We propose a peer-to-peer P2P home monitoring system architecture to exploit a vacuum robot with an IP camera, a movable IP camera. The key implementation issues for the proposed system are: i the easy configuration of a vacuum robot to connect to Wi-Fi ...

On the basis of advances in the internet of things IoT, lots of efforts have been devoted to smart home systems, that aim at providing intelligent and comfort living environment for residents. To construct flexible and robust home networks HNs for smart ...

From an internet service provider's ISP perspective, modern broadband access networks pose significant and ever increasing challenges in terms of security management. The growing number of permanently connected home networks, with a myriad of poorly ...

In this paper, coherent optical wireless (COWs) technology is proposed for indoor high data rate communication applications. We discuss several design issues and the architecture of the optical wireless coherent transceiver. We also present an initial ...

Optical wireless systems constitute an interesting alternative for supporting next generation local area networks with high speed gigabit-per-second connectivity. Their advantages include a vast license-free spectrum, an abundance of transmission ...

In this paper, we discuss how wireline and wireless photonic technologies can be used to support high bandwidth connections inside a home or office setting. We first present a set of requirements that photonic home networks must meet in order to provide ...

This paper designs an integrated multimedia system which is able to perform intelligent controls on media devices and services in a home-based context-aware environment. In this design, this proposed system functions both of intelligent media content ...

We describe the architecture of FlowQoS, a system that makes it easier for users in home broadband access networks to configure quality of service based on applications and devices, as opposed to obscure, low-level parameters. The central tenet of ...

We present a demonstration of WTF (Where's The Fault?), a system that localizes performance problems in home and access networks. We implement WTF as custom firmware that runs in an off-the-shelf home router. WTF uses timing and buffering information ...

The penetration ratio of broadband networks into residential areas increases rapidly by the wide distribution of Internet service providers and networks. People are able to distribute and play various media content with many types of networked ...