Network Monitoring Architecture based on Home Gateways

The Future Internet Gateway-based Architecture of Residential net- wOrks (FIGARO) project proposes to tackle the new challenges arising from the shift of the Internet use from technology centric to user/content centric with a novel network architecture centered on the residential gateways. Many use cases for the FI- GARO architecture such as home automation, distributed content management, con- tent delivery optimizations, network performance monitoring and troubleshooting re- quire advanced network monitoring functionality on the residential gateway. In this paper, we discuss the requirements and design of the FIGARO gateway-centric net- work monitoring architecture.