TY - JOUR A1 - Hager, Markus A1 - Finke, Thomas A1 - Seitz, Jochen A1 - Waas, Thomas T1 - Software-based management for Ethernet networks JF - Wireless Personal Communications N2 - An adequate network management is an essential part for each network permitting to keep the network performance at a suitable level. In this paper, we present our work focusing on an Ethernet network which is used as background interconnection technology for a smart home system in large buildings like tenements or an office block. In this case the network is larger and especially the applications are quite heterogeneous as compared to a private smart home system. Therefore, it is hard to supply a fair and quality of service aware network meeting all the demands. This is especially challenging in the case of an Ethernet network because this technology was intended to use it as a transparent connection system without the feature to support hard quality of service. We present how this problem could be solved by a middleware which best meets the special requirement of the mentioned use case. Finally, we discuss possible design improvements of this solution and present the recent Ethernet standards that could help solve this problem in an alternative way. KW - Network management KW - Ethernet KW - Middleware Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1341-3 VL - 74 IS - 3 SP - 1021 EP - 1032 PB - Springer Nature ER -