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.