HomeNets '11Pub Date : 2011-08-15DOI: 10.1145/2018567.2018576
Changyu Dong, Naranker Dulay
{"title":"Argumentation-based fault diagnosis for home networks","authors":"Changyu Dong, Naranker Dulay","doi":"10.1145/2018567.2018576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2018567.2018576","url":null,"abstract":"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 comprehensive information about the network and the devices but it is left to the user to interpret and reason about the data and experiment in order to find the cause of a problem. Home users may not have motivation or time to learn the required skills. Furthermore current tools adopt a closed approach which hardcodes a knowledge base, making them hard to update and extend. This paper proposes an open fault management framework for home networks, whose goal is to simplify network troubleshooting for non-expert users. The framework is based on assumption-based argumentation that is an AI technique for knowledge representation and reasoning. With the underlying argumentation theory, we can easily capture and model the diagnosis procedures of network administrators. The framework is rule-based and extensible, allowing new rules to be added into the knowledge base and diagnostic strategies to be updated on the fly.The framework can also utilise external knowledge and make distributed diagnosis.","PeriodicalId":301655,"journal":{"name":"HomeNets '11","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127677709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HomeNets '11Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1145/2018567.2018570
Steven J. Bauer, D. Clark, W. Lehr
{"title":"PowerBoost","authors":"Steven J. Bauer, D. Clark, W. Lehr","doi":"10.1145/2018567.2018570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2018567.2018570","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines a feature present in some cable broadband networks that can enable, for multiple megabytes of data, higher data rates than what can be sustained over the long term. Commonly referred to as \"Powerboost,\" this feature represents a strategy for sharing unused link capacity among users of cable broadband networks. We explain how Powerboost works under current implementations, consider how it may impact the experiences of broadband users, and examine the challenges that Powerboost poses for the design of performance metrics that may be used to evaluate the service quality of broadband ISPs. We present sample measurement data for a Powerboost enabled broadband connection and discuss how such measurements might be reported in the current large scale broadband measurement study led by the FCC.","PeriodicalId":301655,"journal":{"name":"HomeNets '11","volume":"156-157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133095359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}