Lecture
HomeMaestro: A framework for detecting and correcting contention in Home Networks
Speaker: |
Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK |
Date: |
Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
Time: |
12:00-13:30 |
Location: |
"Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete |
Host: |
E. Markatos |
| Abstract: |
In this talk, I will describe
HomeMaestro, a distributed system for monitoring and instrumentation
of home networks. By performing extensive measurements at the
host level HomeMaestro infers application network requirements,
and identifies network-related problems. By sharing and correlating
information across hosts in the home network, HomeMaestro automatically
detects and resolves contention over network resources among applications
based on predefined policies. Finally, our system implements a
distributed virtual queue to enforce those policies by prioritizing
applications without additional assistance from network equipment
such as routers or access points. In the talk, I will outline
the challenges in managing home networks, describe the design
choices and the architecture of our system, and highlight the
performance og HomeMaestro components in typical home scenarios. (Joint work with Elias Athanasopoulos, Thomas Karagiannis, and Peter Key). |
| Bio: |
Christos is a researcher in the Systems and Networking Group in Microsoft
Research, Cambridge, UK. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, and a bachelors from University of Patras,
Greece, both in computer science. He is interested in content distribution
networks, peer-to-peer technologies, analysis and modelling of complex
communication networks, and wireless mesh networking. Christos is a member
of IEEE and ACM. |
