International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
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Volume 35 - Issue 11 |
Published: December 2011 |
Authors: Debajyoti Pal |
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Debajyoti Pal . Smart Home Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting System. International Journal of Computer Applications. 35, 11 (December 2011), 42-46. DOI=10.5120/4449-6217
@article{ 10.5120/4449-6217, author = { Debajyoti Pal }, title = { Smart Home Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting System }, journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications }, year = { 2011 }, volume = { 35 }, number = { 11 }, pages = { 42-46 }, doi = { 10.5120/4449-6217 }, publisher = { Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA } }
%0 Journal Article %D 2011 %A Debajyoti Pal %T Smart Home Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting System%T %J International Journal of Computer Applications %V 35 %N 11 %P 42-46 %R 10.5120/4449-6217 %I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
The complexity of home networks has evolved to a greater level of sophistication and complicacy in the recent times comprising of heterogeneous components like at least two computers, web-enabled high-definition television sets, net-enabled blue ray disc players, iPods and many other such devices. Troubleshooting such a sophisticated smart home network in case of a malfunction by the novice end users seems to be very demanding. The paper proposes a Smart Home Network Monitoring System that provides a centralized, general-purpose, automatic and convergent logging facility with the purpose to auto-detect and possibly correct all such failure issues by having a well-defined set of adaptive and incremental rule engine that needs to be applied to the entire network in general. Logging of all events that happened before trouble appeared may give a greater insight and hence help in providing an effective and permanent troubleshooting mechanism. This paper also reports the initial experience of deploying such a facility.