HomeNetRescue: An SDN service for troubleshooting home networks

The number of smart devices in home networks is rapidly increasing, making it more complex to manage their faults. In addition, the lack of customer knowledge and tools to automatically diagnose and fix faults aggravate the problem. In this paper, we propose HomeNetRescue, a Software-Defined Network (SDN) service for autonomous management of wireless and wired home networks focused on fault and configuration management. We evaluate HomeNetRescue in a real world prototype, considering throughput, delay, and jitter. Our results show that HomeNetRescue can increase the throughput of the network by up to 131%, reducing wireless transmission delay and jitter by 46% and 24%, respectively.