Michael Rabinovich, Mark Allman, Stephen Brennan, Brian Pollack, Junbo Xu. Rethinking Home Networks in the Ultrabroadband Era. Invited paper for IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, July 2019.
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Abstract:

The advent of ultrabroadband Internet connectivity brings a 2-3 orders of magnitude jump in the capacity of access networks (a.k.a. the "last mile"). Beyond mere capacity increase, this leap represents a qualitative shift in the overall Internet environment, Therefore, we argue that only by seizing the opportunity to re-think the way we structure network applications and services can we realize the full potential ultrabroadband provides.

Specifically, with ultrabroadband residential networks, we have the opportunity to re-center our digital lives around our residence, similar to how our physical lives generally center around our homes. To this end, we introduce a new appliance in home networks—--a "home point of presence"--—that provides a variety of services to the users in the house regardless of where they are physically located and connected to the network. We illustrate the utility of this appliance by discussing a range of new services that both bring new functionality to the users and improve performance of existing applications.

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{RABPX19,
    author    =     "Michael Rabinovich and Mark Allman and Stephen Brennan and Brian Pollack and Junbo Xu",
    title     =     "{Rethinking Home Networks in the Ultrabroadband Era}",
    booktitle =     "IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems",
    year      =     2019,
    month     =     jul,
    note      =     "Invited paper",
}