Beyond connectivity

Home users form the largest proportion of Internet users globally today. With the way broadband Internet usage is likely to emerge as a future communication medium interconnecting families and household communities, we visited some of the issues and future problems that might hamper content sharing among users tomorrow. In so doing, we developed a simpler, intuitive, and more resilient content-sharing architecture that is designed to operate seamlessly with much of tomorrow's networks and protocols. Our findings prove that it is not only possible to build an architecture that can coexist with today's networks but also capable of doing so with little performance difference to the end user.