On the design and implementation of a virtualized residential gateway

This paper presents ongoing work in the realization of an open and functional next-generation Residential Gateway (RG). Our RG supports the deployment of third-party services through Operating System-Level (OS-Level) Virtualization, namely LXC Namespaces. Our experiences show that LXC Namespaces is capable of supporting a relatively high number of services with little performance overhead, even on modest hardware. In order to provide the proof of concept, we present a validating application from the healthcare domain, although the generic RG architecture is capable of supporting services from other service domains.