Network and service management encompasses a set of activities, methods, procedures,
and tools, whose ultimate goal is to guarantee the proper functioning of a networked system …

Wireless home networks are increasingly deployed in people's homes worldwide.
Unfortunately, home networks have evolved using protocols designed for backbone and …

Internet-connected consumer electronics marketed as smart devices (also known as Internet-
of-Things devices) usually lack essential security protection mechanisms. This puts user …

Home wireless networks are difficult to manage and comprehend because of evolving
locality, co-locality, connectivity and interaction. We define formal models of home wireless …

This paper presents a user driven redesign of the domestic network infrastructure that draws
upon a series of ethnographic studies of home networks. We present an infrastructure based …

This paper considers SDN, and OpenFlow in particular, as technology to develop the next
generation of more flexible, configurable and automated home networks. We identify the …

The Homework project has examined redesign of existing home network infrastructures to
better support the needs and requirements of actual home users. Integrating results from …

Home networks are a fast growing market but managing them is a difficult task, and
diagnosing faults is even more challenging. Current fault management tools provide …

The need to autonomically optimize end-user service experience in near real time has been
identified in the literature in recent years. Management systems that monitor end-user …

There is increasing demand for complex event processing of ever-expanding volumes of
data in an ever-growing number of application domains. Traditional complex event …