Monitoring scheduling for home gateways

— In simple and monolithic systems such as our current home gateways, monitoring is often overlooked: the home user can only reboot the gateway when there is a problem. In next-generation home gateways, more services will be available (pay-per-view TV, games. . . ) and different actors will provide them. When one service fails, it will be impossible to reboot the gateway without disturbing the other services. We propose a management framework that monitors remote gateways, in order to react to failures. The framework tests response times for various management activities on the gateway, and provides reference time/performance ratios. The values can be used to establish a management plan that balances the rate at which queries can be performed with the resulting load that the query will induce locally on the gateway. This allows the manager to tune the ratio between the reactivity of monitoring and its intrusiveness on performance.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: NOMS
• Authors: Stéphane Frénot, Yvan Royon, Pierre Parrend, D. Beras
• Keywords: Communications, Current Home Gateways, Framework Tests Response, Home Gateways, NOMS 2008