Digital Home Networking

Romain Carbou has been a senior service architect in mobile services and European project coordinator at Orange Labs since 2005. He managed the CELTIC Research Project 'Feel@Home' from 2008 to 2010. Michel Diaz is Director of Research at the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), working at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse. He has received the Silver Core of the IFIP, is Senior Member of the IEEE, member of the New York Academy of Sciences and is listed in the Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Ernesto Exposito has been Assistant professor at the INSA of Toulouse and a researcher at the LAAS laboratory of the CNRS, France since 2006. His research interests include autonomic communication services aimed at satisfying the requirements of new generation multimedia applications in heterogeneous network environments. Rodrigo Roman is a postdoctoral researcher working at the University of Malaga, Spain. At present, his research interests are mainly focused on the secure integration of sensor networks with other infrastructures, such as critical infrastructures and the Internet of Things.

• 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, Cristina ALCARAZ 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, Francisco MOYANO 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 Service 203Jorge 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 networks 2237.5. Conclusion 2517.6. Bibliography 252Chapter 8. Service Management 259Marta BEL MARTIN, Olivier DUGEON, Julien FASSON, Anas ABOU EL KALAM, Mohamed MAACHAOUI, Béatrice PAILLASSA, Francisco Javier RAMÓN 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@Home System 309Marta BEL MARTIN, Gema MAESTRO MOLINA, Mohamed MAHDI and Olivier DUGEON9.1. The Feel@Home architecture 3099.2. 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 Internet 355Olivier DUGEON and Mohamed MAHDI10.1. Introduction 35510.2. Interoperability scenarios 35610.3. Internet-based content sharing between remote homes 37010.4. Conclusion 38410.5. Bibliography 384Chapter 11. Conclusion 385Michel DIAZ11.1. Bibliography 388List of Authors 389Index 391