SPIN: Enabling Secure and Pervasive Inter-Home Networking

Humans, by nature, have an innate urge to stay connected, share information and news, and collectively enhance our understanding of the world. The term connected society has become more appropriate with the Internet era. Home networking allows users to communicate and interact anywhere at anytime. This new and emerging technology will bring the Internet to the hands of the consumers, to every appliance in the house, and help interconnect people across the globe. It allows access to homes via the Internet when one is away, enabling security and energy management. In this paper, we discuss our approach for constructing a dynamic and secure "Inter-home" environment and tackling the challenges associated with it. The proposed overlay architecture -SPIN- is based on a P2P overlay protocol to interconnect the different home networks. Peer-to-peer networking has been recently popularized by file sharing systems such as Kaaza. We view the inter-home communications as more formalized home-network-extended construction of current P2P file sharing community.