Abstract :
A home gateway (HG) connects the residential network to ISPs for offering services like Internet access, VoIP, IPTV, etc. Its sensitivity to faults and the increasing failure challenges are often perceived by users, giving rise to a lack of trustworthiness in the HG. In order to tackle this kind of problem, a provider needs to improve the HG´s resilience, and also to assess the dependability and security of the manufacturer´s prototypes through benchmark. This paper describes a resilience benchmarking procedure for HGs: starting from test and field failure data, we analyzed the effective metrics for measuring and assessing the various HG responses under different situations with respect to the resilience properties, i.e., availability, reliability, security, etc. It is done by covering the largest possible range of faults (accidental disturbances, environmental perturbations, etc.), and selecting some subset of each class to analyze the HG behaviour, thus resulting in its robustness assessment.
Keywords :
benchmark testing; internetworking; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication security; IPTV; Internet access; VoIP; availability; home gateways; reliability; resilience benchmarking procedure; security; Benchmark testing; Data analysis; Data security; IP networks; IPTV; Manufacturing; Mercury (metals); Prototypes; Resilience; Web and internet services;
