Traffic monitoring in home networks: Enhancing diagnosis and performance tracking

摘要

Home network complexity is dramatically growing in terms of topology (devices and connectivity technologies) and services leading to increasingly challenging management issues. In this context, enabling a better visibility of home network traffic usage and performance is a crucial step to provide efficient selfcare and customer care. In this paper, we study home network traffic monitoring architectural approaches. In particular, we study the feasibility of Home Gateway based flow monitoring approach, which will allow enhancing home network diagnostic and performance tracking. Our experimental evaluation aims to provide a better understanding of deployment possibilities and limits. The obtained results based on an open source tool are promising in terms of resource consumption (CPU and memory load, bandwidth utilization).