End-to-end broadband service delivery requires remote management of devices in the
home network, beyond the home gateway (HG). The service provider can only put limited …

Prioritization of flows in a home network based on traffic classification is still no guarantee
that enough bandwidth will be available between a server and a client. Besides, such QoS …

The current service-and device discovery protocols are not platform-and network independent.
Therefore, proxy servers will be needed to extend the range of IP-based discovery …

… The findings of this chapter have been published in Delphinanto et al. (2009b). … chapter
have been published in Delphinanto et al. (2007a,b) and patented in Delphinanto et al. (2009a). …

Current QoS solutions for IP networks are usually based on traffic classification and need to
be supported by every device in the end-to-end path to be effective. This is relatively …

Prioritization of flows in a home network based on traffic classification is still no guarantee
that enough bandwidth will be available between a content server and a client. Besides, such …

… Architecture Figure 3 shows the architecture of our reservation manager implementation on
UPnP. The architecture is composed by four modules, namely a Service Discovery module, a …

Service providers are demanding the development of novel diagnostic tools with which they
can remotely troubleshoot the home network. One of the tools should be able to gather …

Current QoS solutions for home networks are inspired by Internet technologies and typically
based on traffic classification and prioritization. They are not well adopted because they …

Home networks show an increasing level of heterogeneity regarding the devices connected,
network technologies used, and services supported. Heterogeneity inhibits quality …