Instrumenting home networks

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth L. Calvert;W. Keith Edwards;Nick Feamster;Rebecca E. Grinter;Ye Deng;Xuzi Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA;University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA;University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Home networks
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In managing and troubleshooting home networks, one of the challenges is in knowing what is actually happening. Availability of a record of events that occurred on the home network before trouble appeared would go a long way toward addressing that challenge. In this position/work-in-progress paper, we consider requirements for a general-purpose logging facility for home networks. Such a facility, if properly designed, would potentially have other uses. We describe several such uses and discuss requirements to be considered in the design of a logging platform that would be widely supported and accepted. We also report on our initial experience deploying such a facility.