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In this work, we perform performance measurements to investigate the viability of whole home security solutions for residential customers. We measure the performance impact and perception of a residential SDN that uses a cloud-based controller, by measuring the latency from residential networks to the cloud infrastructure. Then we measure page loading times for popular domains.

In this work, we create a high performance host-based SDN that is compatible with the OpenFlow protocol. Our approach, DeepContext, provides details about the application context to the network controller, allowing enhanced decision-making. We evaluate the performance of DeepContext, comparing it to traditional networks and Open vSwitch deployments. We further characterize the completeness of the data provided by the system and the resulting benefits.

Investigating a novel way to automate the proxying of residential networks and communications. This work uses software-defined networking and proxying to secure home network traffic. We evaluate this work using the Skype video conferencing traffic.