Digital Home Networking

In an era of ubiquity, nomadism and ecological challenge, the maturity of wireless technologies, the readiness of broadband Internet access and the popularity of smart terminals should contribute to emancipating IT services in connection with the home and home-based resources. This book, in light of several years of applied research and technological surveys, aims at describing the digital home networking environment, its techniques, and the challenges around its service architecture. Digital Home Networking aims to provide a broad introduction to state-of-the-art digital home standards and protocols, as well as an in-depth description of service architectures for entertainment and domotic services involving digital home resources. The book covers aspects such as networking, remote access, security, interoperability, scalability and Quality of Service. Notably, it describes the generic architecture, which was proposed and developed in the context of the EUREKA/Celtic research project "e;Feel@Home"e;.

In an era of ubiquity, nomadism and ecological challenge, the maturity of wireless technologies, the readiness of broadband Internet access and the popularity of smart terminals should contribute to emancipating IT services in connection with the home and home-based resources. This book, in light of several years of applied research and technological surveys, aims at describing the digital home networking environment, its techniques, and the challenges around its service architecture.Digital Home Networking aims to provide a broad introduction to state-of-the-art digital home standards and protocols, as well as an in-depth description of service architectures for entertainment and domotic services involving digital home resources. The book covers aspects such as networking, remote access, security, interoperability, scalability and Quality of Service. Notably, it describes the generic architecture, which was proposed and developed in the context of the EUREKA/Celtic research project "Feel@Home".

Chapter 1. Introduction 1Romain CARBOU1.1. Cultural context around a definition 11.2. A brief history of home automation 31.3. Coming to a definition of the digital home 71.4. Plan of this book 91.5. Bibliography 10Chapter 2. Actors in Digital Home Networking 11Romain CARBOU2.1. Scope 112.2. Categories of actors 122.3. User roles 152.4. Bibliography 16Chapter 3. Network Technologies 17Pablo NAJERA and Ana NIETO3.1. Local connectivity and networks 173.2. Connectivity to main networks 303.3. Bibliography 54Chapter 4. Standards 59Rémi BARS, Jorge GOMEZ-MONTALVO, Mohamed MAHDI, CristinaALCARAZ and Rodrigo ROMAN4.1. Introduction 594.2. Standards used in the home 594.3. Remote access to homes 824.4. Bibliography 92Chapter 5. Personalization and Home Context 97Gema MAESTRO, Lin SUN, Daqing ZHANG and Bin GUO5.1. Introduction 975.2. Personalization 985.3. Context management and sharing 1125.4. Protégé - an ontology editor 1295.5. Bibliography 136Chapter 6. Security 139Anas ABOU EL KALAM, Marc LACOSTE, Mohamed MAACHAOUI, FranciscoMOYANO and Rodrigo ROMAN6.1. Importance of security and privacy 1396.2. Security requirements of the extended digital home 1436.3. A conceptual security architecture 1496.4. Relevant security mechanisms 1566.5. Applying the security architecture 1896.6. Bibliography 195Chapter 7. Quality of Experience and Quality of Service203Jorge GÓMEZ-MONTALVO and Ernesto EXPOSITO7.1. Introduction 2037.2. QoS concepts and standards 2047.3. IETF multimedia protocols 2207.4. Semantic approach for QoS management in home networks2237.5. Conclusion 2517.6. Bibliography 252Chapter 8. Service Management 259Marta BEL MARTIN, Olivier DUGEON, Julien FASSON, Anas ABOU ELKALAM, Mohamed MAACHAOUI, Béatrice PAILLASSA, Francisco JavierRAMÓN SALGUERO and Warodom WERAPUN8.1. Introduction 2598.2. Service management basis 2608.3. Basic protocols 2628.4. Network architecture and service management 2778.5. Conclusion 3058.6. Bibliography 306Chapter 9. The Feel@HomeSystem 309Marta BEL MARTIN, Gema MAESTRO MOLINA, Mohamed MAHDI and OlivierDUGEON9.1. The Feel@Home architecture3099.2. Local and remote content distribution through VPN 3299.3. Local and remote content distribution through IMS 3379.4. Conclusion 3529.5. Bibliography 353Chapter 10. Home Interconnection through the Internet355Olivier DUGEON and Mohamed MAHDI10.1. Introduction 35510.2. Interoperability scenarios 35610.3. Internet-based content sharing between remote homes37010.4. Conclusion 38410.5. Bibliography 384Chapter 11. Conclusion 385Michel DIAZ11.1. Bibliography 388List of Authors 389Index 391