Contextual Networks: Advancing Experience Oriented Networking to the Home

In a home network, there are multiple users each running different applications interacting with the network. To enhance the experience of each user, prioritization of various network applications is important. Previous solutions to this problem assigned priorities in a static manner. Even though there has been some efforts to assign priorities dynamically, these solutions only used interactivity of the application to prioritize traffic. We present Contextual Router, which achieves better prioritization by detecting all the flows generated in a home network and assigning priorities in a dynamic manner using various features of flows collected from each user’s machine.