Towards switched-homing for Internet access
(2025) ANRW′25 — Location: Madrid, Spain (22.July.2025)
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Baerts, Matthieu 
- Abstract
- Most home networks are single-homed, i.e. connected through a single link to the Internet. This solution, while easy to deploy, lacks resilience because of its single point of failure. BGP-based multihoming is suitable for entreprise networks, but impossible for home networks. We encourage the IETF and researchers to explore an alternative called switched-homing where a small network can switch from one Internet link to another. This paradigm can increase network resilience and provide energy savings by switching to a lower consumption link at appropriate times. We show that such switches can be smooth using modern transport protocols like QUIC and Multipath TCP, and discuss future work.
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Bertrand Van Ouytsel, P.-E., Baerts, M., & Bonaventure, O. (2025). Towards switched-homing for Internet access. ANRW ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 Applied Networking Research Workshop, 178. https://doi.org/10.1145/3744200.3744771 (Original work published 2025)