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".

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Romain CARBOU 1.1. Cultural context around a definition 1 1.2. A brief history of home automation 3 1.3. Coming to a definition of the digital home 7 1.4. Plan of this book 9 1.5. Bibliography 10 Chapter 2. Actors in Digital Home Networking 11 Romain CARBOU 2.1. Scope 11 2.2. Categories of actors 12 2.3. User roles 15 2.4. Bibliography 16 Chapter 3. Network Technologies 17 Pablo NAJERA and Ana NIETO 3.1. Local connectivity and networks 17 3.2. Connectivity to main networks 30 3.3. Bibliography 54 Chapter 4. Standards 59 Rémi BARS, Jorge GOMEZ-MONTALVO, Mohamed MAHDI, Cristina ALCARAZ and Rodrigo ROMAN 4.1. Introduction 59 4.2. Standards used in the home 59 4.3. Remote access to homes 82 4.4. Bibliography 92 Chapter 5. Personalization and Home Context 97 Gema MAESTRO, Lin SUN, Daqing ZHANG and Bin GUO 5.1. Introduction 97 5.2. Personalization 98 5.3. Context management and sharing 112 5.4. Protégé – an ontology editor 129 5.5. Bibliography 136 Chapter 6. Security 139 Anas ABOU EL KALAM, Marc LACOSTE, Mohamed MAACHAOUI, Francisco MOYANO and Rodrigo ROMAN 6.1. Importance of security and privacy 139 6.2. Security requirements of the extended digital home 143 6.3. A conceptual security architecture 149 6.4. Relevant security mechanisms 156 6.5. Applying the security architecture 189 6.6. Bibliography 195 Chapter 7. Quality of Experience and Quality of Service 203 Jorge GÓMEZ-MONTALVO and Ernesto EXPOSITO 7.1. Introduction 203 7.2. QoS concepts and standards 204 7.3. IETF multimedia protocols 220 7.4. Semantic approach for QoS management in home networks 223 7.5. Conclusion 251 7.6. Bibliography 252 Chapter 8. Service Management 259 Marta BEL MARTIN, Olivier DUGEON, Julien FASSON, Anas ABOU EL KALAM, Mohamed MAACHAOUI, Béatrice PAILLASSA, Francisco Javier RAMÓN SALGUERO and Warodom WERAPUN 8.1. Introduction 259 8.2. Service management basis 260 8.3. Basic protocols 262 8.4. Network architecture and service management 277 8.5. Conclusion 305 8.6. Bibliography 306 Chapter 9. The Feel@Home System 309 Marta BEL MARTIN, Gema MAESTRO MOLINA, Mohamed MAHDI and Olivier DUGEON 9.1. The Feel@Home architecture 309 9.2. Local and remote content distribution through VPN 329 9.3. Local and remote content distribution through IMS 337 9.4. Conclusion 352 9.5. Bibliography 353 Chapter 10. Home Interconnection through the Internet 355 Olivier DUGEON and Mohamed MAHDI 10.1. Introduction 355 10.2. Interoperability scenarios 356 10.3. Internet-based content sharing between remote homes 370 10.4. Conclusion 384 10.5. Bibliography 384 Chapter 11. Conclusion 385 Michel DIAZ 11.1. Bibliography 388 List of Authors 389 Index 391