Home Network

Smart Home technology started for more than a decade to introduce the concept of networking devices and equipment in the house. According to the Smart Homes Association the best definition of smart home technology is: the integration of technology and services through home networking for a better quality of living.

Approximately 4,500 14-to 18-year-olds completed questionnaires concerning their parents' practices and their academic achievement, psychosocial competence, behavior problems, and internalized distress. Independent reports from participants' friends were used to measure authoritativeness in the peer network. Parental authoritativeness in the network benefits adolescents above and beyond the positive impact of parental authoritativeness at home. Network authoritativeness was associated with lower levels of delinquency and substance use among all participants, lower levels of school misconduct and peer conformity for boys, and greater psychosocial competence and lower levels of psychological distress among girls. The beneficial impact of network authoritativeness on adolescent behavior is (a) mediated mainly through its effect on adolescents' peers and ( b) greatest among adolescents who perceive their own parents to be relatively more authoritative.

Power lines were originally devised to transmit electric power from a small number of sources (the generators) to a large number of sinks (the consumers) in the frequency range of 50-60 Hz. Initially, the first data transmissions over power lines were primarily done only to protect sections of the power distribution system in case of faults. (In fact, power line protection remains one of the primary functions of power line communications.) In such an event, the fast exchange of information is necessary between power plants, substations 4

The past decade has seen significant advancement in the field of consumer electronics. Various 'intelligent' appliances such as cellular phones, air-conditioners, home security devices, home theatres, etc. are set to realize the concept of a smart home. They have given rise to a Personal Area Network in home environment, where all these appliances can be interconnected and monitored using a single controller. Busy families and individuals with physical limitation represent an attractive market for home automation and networking. A wireless home network that does not incur additional costs of wiring would be desirable. Bluetooth technology, which has emerged in late 1990s, is an ideal solution for this purpose. This paper describes an application of Bluetooth technology in home automation and networking environment. It proposes a network, which contains a remote, mobile host controller and several client modules (home appliances). The client modules communicate with the host controller through Bluetooth devices. q

Power Line Communication (PLC) is an evolving communication network technology using the existing power lines and enables to provide the automatic meter reading service, high-speed Internet service as well as home networking service. As the use of PLC network and their applications increase, we need to manage the resources of PLC networks efficiently. Major PLC chipset and modem vendors are trying to provide network management solutions, but they are only specific solutions. It is necessary to provide a general PLC network management solution for PLC networks comprised of PLC devices from heterogeneous vendors. In this paper, we propose a PLC network management system called i-NetMSuite4PLC. We also propose a common PLC MIB (Management Information Base) based on some existing PLC MIBs. We present the design and implementation of the system.

This paper is concerned with improving the software engineering of agent-based open systems. It critiques the existing Gaia methodology in the light of a motivating example of intelligent home networks. It describes the ROADMAP 1 methodology, which extends Gaia with four improvements -formal models of knowledge and the environment, role hierarchies, explicit representation of social structures and relationships, and incorporation of dynamic changes.

Using the existing home infrastructure based on open industry standards, we will be able to integrate the home network with external networks to easily manage home devices, both locally and remotely. The advent of pervasive computing marks an urgent need for a new generation of intelligent sensing agents and information appliances. It will also demand environments for resource management of broad applications involving loosely coupled, event-driven, diverse information appliances. It is suggested that the development of intelligent sensing agents and sensor-based information appliances will spread pervasive technology to a multitude of human activities such as mining and manufacturing, security, transportation, sports, and health care. The topics discussed also include management of heterogeneous functions and networking technologies.

Wireless personal area network and wireless sensor networks are rapidly gaining popularity, and the IEEE 802.15 Wireless Personal Area Working Group has defined no less than different standards so as to cater to the requirements of different applications. The ubiquitous home network has gained widespread attentions due to its seamless integration into everyday life. This innovative system transparently unifies various home appliances, smart sensors and energy technologies. The smart energy market requires two types of ZigBee networks for device control and energy management. Today, organizations use IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee to effectively deliver solutions for a variety of areas including consumer electronic device control, energy management and efficiency, home and commercial building automation as well as industrial plant management.

A user centric approach to authentication for home networks is proposed. A zero-knowledge-proof (ZKP) authentication is used to leverage the emerging cloud infrastructure allowing users to temporarily transfer their service and content rights within a trusted environment such as a friend's home. This approach enables the sharing of personalized content and more sophisticated network-based services over a conventional TCP/IP infrastructure. Experimental results derived from a reference prototype are presented. These demonstrate the practicality of the underlying approach. The potential to develop new cloud services for "social" home networks is also discussed 1 .

Wireless personal area network and wireless sensor networks are rapidly gaining popularity, and the IEEE 802.15 Wireless Personal Area Working Group has defined no less than different standards so as to cater to the requirements of different applications. The ubiquitous home network has gained widespread attentions due to its seamless integration into everyday life. This innovative system transparently unifies various home appliances, smart sensors and energy technologies. The smart energy market requires two types of ZigBee networks for device control and energy management. Today, organizations use IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee to effectively deliver solutions for a variety of areas including consumer electronic device control, energy management and efficiency, home and commercial building automation as well as industrial plant management.

The past decade has seen significant advancement in the field of consumer electronics. Various 'intelligent' appliances such as cellular phones, air-conditioners, home security devices, home theatres, etc. are set to realize the concept of a smart home. They have given rise to a Personal Area Network in home environment, where all these appliances can be interconnected and monitored using a single controller. Busy families and individuals with physical limitation represent an attractive market for home automation and networking. A wireless home network that does not incur additional costs of wiring would be desirable. Bluetooth technology, which has emerged in late 1990s, is an ideal solution for this purpose. This paper describes an application of Bluetooth technology in home automation and networking environment. It proposes a network, which contains a remote, mobile host controller and several client modules (home appliances). The client modules communicate with the host controller through Bluetooth devices. q

Problem statement: Multimode fiber cables can conduct many light rays and can operate free of disruption and with a greater bandwidth than a wireless connection. However, due to a slight variation in the speed of the light rays through the multimode fiber, a signal transmitted by all of these rays becomes spread out. Consequently, the signals become broader and therefore fewer signals fit in the fiber, limiting the transmission capacity. These demands grow almost daily. Hence new ways of splitting methods must be found to satisfy all application demands, especially related to automotive application. Approach: Home-made 1×12 optical splitter based on polymer optical fiber material base is one of the most innovative technologies on optical component which can be applied on some useful application. A perform technique had been used to fabricate kind of splitter. In order to develop such an efficient optical device which can be integrated into the body of automotive field, research with a good specification-oriented study tent to be conduct and it must be passed through a well-planned fabrication technique together with a proper characterization process. Multimode Step-Index Polymer Optical Fiber (SI-POF) type made of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) with Ø core = 1 mm and NA: 0.50 fully utilized in this research, as PMMA is one of the most commonly used optical materials. This material has been chosen as a base of splitter body in a fused-taper-twisted shape, produced by a unique fabrication stages. PMMA-POF can easily be used near it operating temperature between -40°C to +115°C. Results: By injecting 650 nm wavelength of red LED, characterization process start plays an important role in investigating level of efficiency of the device. Some parameters, such as optical output power and power losses on the devices were observed. Although the maximum output power efficiency of the splitter is about 40% but it can be improved gradually through experience and practice. Conclusion: The fabrication process is simple, easy and suitable to be used by household. Moreover, the users can determine the size of the fabricated device themselves. The POF-based optical 1×12 splitter had been suggested to be applied into automobile application to overcome blind spot area tracking problem as a one of low-cost solution in the future and also in home networking to avoid the bottleneck occurs between ONU and electronic appliances, resulting increase the speedy of data communication.

In this study, we propose a novel wireless access monitoring and control system based on the digital door lock, which is explosively used as a digital consumer device. Digital door lock is an electronic locking system operated by the combination of digital key, security password or number codes. This paper presents a prototype of the proposed system and shows a scheme for the implementation. To implement the system with ZigBee network protocol, four types of modules are developed, ZigBee module, digital door lock module, human detection module, and ZigBee relay module. ZigBee module is designed to support wireless sensor network and also used for the ZigBee tag to identify the access objects. Digital door lock module is implemented as a digital consumer device to control the access system as well as locking system. It is very convenient system for the consumers and has extensible and flexible characteristics. That is, it can be used as a home security system by the ZigBee network with additional sensor devices. Therefore, it can be a good practical product for the realization of an access monitoring and control system. It also can be applied to the real market for home networking system. Furthermore, the system can be extended to another service such as a connection between mobile phone and home networking system. 1 .

Home automation systems have been utilized for smart homes. In this work, a home automation system based on multi-port power electronic interface is proposed. This system is potentially capable of power management as well as home automation. Remote power management of smart appliances is performed using ZigBee network. A case study is presented to show effectiveness of this system.

Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) has recently gained momentum as one of the key applications in the telecommunications market. Most researchers believe that IPTV service represents a key opportunity for operators around the world to benefit from video delivery over IP networks. In this paper, we investigate the quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) techniques for IPTV transmissions. Particularly, we address two technical challenges in IPTV system: error concealment and channel zapping. To overcome the above challenges, we extend the function of the set-top box (STB) and the home network gateway. As for channel zapping, we propose to employ peer-to-peer communication as a supplement in the channel switching period. As for error concealment, we develop an approach of AL-FEC based adaptive error recovery. Since our study addresses core problems in the IPTV network, we believe it has practical significance to the industrial community.

The past decade has seen significant advancement in the field of consumer electronics. Various ‘intelligent’ appliances such as cellular phones, air-conditioners, home security devices, home theatres, etc. are set to realize the concept of a smart home. They have given rise to a Personal Area Network in home environment, where all these appliances can be interconnected and monitored using a single controller. Busy families and individuals with physical limitation represent an attractive market for home automation and networking. A wireless home network that does not incur additional costs of wiring would be desirable. Bluetooth technology, which has emerged in late 1990s, is an ideal solution for this purpose. This paper describes an application of Bluetooth technology in home automation and networking environment. It proposes a network, which contains a remote, mobile host controller and several client modules (home appliances). The client modules communicate with the host controller through Bluetooth devices.

In choosing a network service technology, a subscriber considers many features such as latency, jitter, packet loss, security, and availability. The most important feature, and usually the one that determines the final selection, is the service availability. In this article, a full spectrum of applications are studied, ranging from the minimal constraints of home networks to the rigorous demands of Industrial Ethernet Networks. This is followed by a thorough examination of Ethernet layer resilience technologies. This paper provides the resilience characteristics that are key for each class of application Ó

The fast increase of mobile Internet use motivates the need for WiFi sharing solutions, where a mobile user connects to the Internet via a nearby foreign network while its home network is far away. This situation creates security challenges which are only partially solved by existing solutions like VPNs. Such solutions neglect the security of the visited network, and private users or organizations are thus reluctant to share their connection. In this paper, we present and implement SWISH, an efficient, full scale solution to this problem. SWISH is based on establishing a tunnel from the visited network to the user's home network. All the data from the mobile is then forwarded through this tunnel. Internet access is therefore provided without endangering the visited network. We also propose protocol extensions that allow the visited network to charge for the data it forwards, and to protect the privacy of the mobile user while preventing abuse. SWISH was successfully deployed on university networks, demonstrating that it can be conveniently implemented in existing networks with a minimal impact on performance.

This paper evaluates the existing NGN based IPTV architecture and services in the context of IPTV service personalization within multi-user environment at home network and user equipment. Advanced scenarios of IPTV for providing fully personalized and interactive IPTV services using existing and new mechanisms in Converged NGN based IPTV architectures are proposed within this paper. The services can improve the quality of experience (QoE) and user expectation via new personalized IPTV service behavior.

In choosing a network service technology, a subscriber considers many features such as latency, jitter, packet loss, security, and availability. The most important feature, and usually the one that determines the final selection, is the service availability. In this article, a full spectrum of applications are studied, ranging from the minimal constraints of home networks to the rigorous demands of Industrial Ethernet Networks. This is followed by a thorough examination of Ethernet layer resilience technologies. This paper provides the resilience characteristics that are key for each class of application Ó

The past decade has seen significant advancement in the field of consumer electronics. Various 'intelligent' appliances such as cellular phones, air-conditioners, home security devices, home theatres, etc. are set to realize the concept of a smart home. They have given rise to a Personal Area Network in home environment, where all these appliances can be interconnected and monitored using a single controller. Busy families and individuals with physical limitation represent an attractive market for home automation and networking. A wireless home network that does not incur additional costs of wiring would be desirable. Bluetooth technology, which has emerged in late 1990s, is an ideal solution for this purpose. This paper describes an application of Bluetooth technology in home automation and networking environment. It proposes a network, which contains a remote, mobile host controller and several client modules (home appliances). The client modules communicate with the host controller through Bluetooth devices. q

The TeacherBridge (Basic Resources for Integrated Distributed Group Environments) motivates collaboration and supports online tools for teachers' professional resource management by providing a socio-technical infrastructure for community networks. While this project focuses initially on local science and mathematics teachers, resources developed are designed to be globally diffused to a wide variety of online communities. This paper discusses the characteristics of

A number of well-known authentication protocols are considered in the context of next-generation mobile and CE network services. The potential weaknesses of current protocols can be overcome using Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) techniques to protect user passwords so an alternative ZKP protocol, SeDiCi 2.0, is described. This offers mutual and also two-factor authentication that is considered more secure against various phishing attempts than existing trusted third party protocols. The suitability of such a ZKP protocol for various CE-based cloud computing applications is demonstrated.

The HomeRF 1 Working Group (WG) is a consortium of over 100 companies from the computer, telecommunications, and consumer electronics industries. This group has developed an open specification called the Shared Wireless Access Protocol -Cordless Access (SWAP-CA) that enables radio frequency (RF) wireless connectivity between a diverse set of devices and computing resources in and around a typical home. Built around an RF spectrum with worldwide availability, SWAP-CA includes operational support for both managed and ad hoc network of devices. It combines and extends wireless networking and cordless telephony into a single unified protocol allowing mobile devices to communicate via both voice and data traffic simultaneously over the Internet and/or over the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). For battery-operated devices it includes a power management mechanism that ensures connection longevity. The technology has been specifically optimized for consumer applications and price points and consequently the HomeRF WG has the broad backing of the major corporate stakeholders interested in enabling tether less networking within the home.

BcN(Broadband convergence Networks) is being deployed in order to support a variety of network applications such as E-Commerce, DMB(Digital Multimedia Broadcasting), Home Network, VoIP(Voice over IP), and other services. As network bandwidth is growing rapidly and services are converged, the opportunity and severity of network intrusions are growing as well. This paper presents a novel Intrusion Detection System (IDS) architecture named 'Security Gateway System (SGS)' designed to perform intrusion detection and prevention on highspeed network links. Among several other features in the system, we focus on the detection of DDoS(Distributed Denial of Service) and IDS evasion attacks. We implemented both the mechanisms for handling the bandwidth consuming attack and the detection engine against IDS evasion attack in FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array). We present some experimental results in a gigabit test bed. The results show that the real-time detection against both attacks is possible with 2 gigabits throughput in each security board.

The past decade has seen significant advancement in the field of consumer electronics. Various 'intelligent' appliances such as cellular phones, air-conditioners, home security devices, home theatres, etc. are set to realize the concept of a smart home. They have given rise to a Personal Area Network in home environment, where all these appliances can be interconnected and monitored using a single controller. Busy families and individuals with physical limitation represent an attractive market for home automation and networking. A wireless home network that does not incur additional costs of wiring would be desirable. Bluetooth technology, which has emerged in late 1990s, is an ideal solution for this purpose. This paper describes an application of Bluetooth technology in home automation and networking environment. It proposes a network, which contains a remote, mobile host controller and several client modules (home appliances). The client modules communicate with the host controller through Bluetooth devices. q

This paper describes the results of real deployment of A 2 S which consists of WSN(Wireless Sensor Network) to monitor and control the environments and a management sub-system to manage the WSN and provide various and convenient services to consumers with hand-held devices such as a PDA living a farming village. The WSN were deployed in greenhouses with melon and cabbage in Dongbu Handong Seed Research Center. A 2 S was used to monitor the growing process of them and control the environment of the greenhouses. We acquired valuable experiences and ideas from this real deployment and operation of A 2 S and believe that they can be useful in consumer electronics field such as home network as well as automated agriculture field. . 1

In this study, we apply a step-by-step approach for the identification of standards for home networking. We develop a classification and we use this classification to categorize sixty-four (sets of) standards. By developing this categorization, we have brought order to the chaos of home networking standards.

Technological advances and pervasiveness of the Internet have recently led to the development of diverse technologies for the digital home. This study presents an RFID-based interdynamic system with an OSGi platform to support applications for digital home surveillance. In the proposed system, the OSGi platform is called a Residential Gateway, and it controls and manages the digital home services. Four service functions, called bundles, are designed to support the home interdynamic application. These bundles are the Device Access, the RFID Device Manager, the Monitoring and the RTP Receiver bundles. The proposed system is applied in the interdynamic between people and home appliances. A person holding RFID Tags is identified by the home appliances, and then can issue requests to them. The proposed system has been implemented in a digital home testbed, revealing that it achieves high-quality home surveillance.

We introduce the concept of ''On Demand Connectivity Sharing'', which we build on top of User-Provided Networks (UPNs). UPNs were recently proposed as a new connectivity paradigm, according to which home-users share their broadband Internet connection with roaming guests. We enhance this paradigm with incentives, rules and policies, based on which: (i) home-users provide on-demand connectivity only (i.e., they do not explicitly allocate a portion of their bandwidth) and (ii) guest-users utilize resources that remain unexploited from the respective home-users.

This paper presents an authentication and key agreement protocol to streamline communication activities for a group of mobile stations (MSs) roaming from the same home network (HN) to a serving network (SN). In such a roaming scenario, conventional schemes require the SN to interact with the HN for authenticating respective MSs, at the cost of repeated message exchanges and communication delay. Instead, in our design, when the first MS of a group visits, the SN performs full authentication with the concerned HN and thereby obtains authentication information for the MS and other members. Thus when any other MS of the same group visits, the SN can authenticate locally without subsequent involvement of the HN, so as to simplify protocol operations. We will show that our scheme does not trade performance for security and robustness to the extent that security requirements are unduly weakened. Both qualitative and quantitative discussions indicate that our proposed scheme lends itself to pragmatic settings.

Home environments promise high potential in terms of resource sharing and energy saving. More and more home computers are running on an always-on basis (e.g. media-centers or file-sharing clients). Such home environments have not been sufficiently analyzed regarding the possibility of aggregating home user resources in an energy efficient way. This article describes a future home environment in which available hardware resources (e.g. CPU cycles, disk space, or network capacity) are shared energy efficiently and balanced among end-users. Furthermore, the article provides an overview of different virtualization methods that are needed in future home environments to enable cooperation of home networks. Virtualization-related requirements are discussed in detail and virtualization methods and concepts are compared to each other with respect to their usability in the architecture.

This paper describes an approach for interconnecting home and mobile networks to enable the control of consumer electronics devices (TV, VCR, camera, CD speller, radio, etc.), connected in a home network, from a remote mobile device like a mobile phone or a web pad. Typical applications are: remote mobile programming of VCR (video cassette recorder), remote mobile control of heating thermostats, remote mobile monitoring of security cameras, etc. To explore the possibilities and the challenges from the middleware point of view we have developed a general homemobile network gateway architecture. The feasibility of this architecture has been demonstrated with a prototype implementation, in which we have selected HAVi (Home Audio Video interoperability) and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) as home entertainment and mobile communication network technologies respectively. '

This paper describes an ingenious way of using Bluetooth-Enabled Mobile Phones to control the PC applications with the help of a Software Application, which is based on Client Server architecture. The application "Application Remote Control using Bluetooth" or (ARC) along with the Mobile Phone possess the ability to control various Software Applications such as Windows Media Player and Microsoft PowerPoint Slideshows. It can also control electrical devices such as LEDs, fans using parallel (LPT) port of the PC, and PC monitor.

We have implemented a system for virtual private networking, with special attention to the needs of telecommuters. In particular, we used off-the-shelf hardware and open-source software to create a platform to provide IP security and other services for in-home networks.

This paper evaluates the existing NGN based IPTV architecture and services in the context of IPTV service personalization within multi-user environment at home network and user equipment. Advanced scenarios of IPTV for providing fully personalized and interactive IPTV services using existing and new mechanisms in Converged NGN based IPTV architectures are proposed within this paper. The services can improve the quality of experience (QoE) and user expectation via new personalized IPTV service behavior.

Home care networks are a new development for automated support of care at home. To address the challenges of home care, the paper describes a component-based architecture developed by the MATCH project (Mobilising Advanced Technologies for Care at Home). Two key components are discussed for managing home care networks. A Service Registry supports generic and extensible registration of services, components, resources and devices in the home. The registry uses ontologies for semantically-based description and discovery. A Policy System automates support of how a home network should deliver care. The views of stakeholders in home care are represented as goals and policies. These are defined in a user-friendly manner and are applied at run-time. Conflicts among goals and policies are automatically detected and resolved.

Low voltage electrical wiring has largely been dismissed as too noisy and unpredictable to support high-speed communication signals. Advances in communication and modulation methodologies as well as in adaptive digital signal processing and error detection and correction have spawned novel protocols capable of supporting power line communication networks at speeds comparable to wired LANs. We motivate the use of power line LANs as a basic infrastructure for building integrated smart homes, wherein information appliances ranging from simple control or monitoring devices to multimedia entertainment systems are seamlessly interconnected by the very wires that provide them electricity. By simulation and actual measurements using "reference design" prototype commercial powerline products, we show that the HomePlug MAC and PHY layers can guarantee QoS for real-time communications, supporting delay-sensitive data streams for smart home applications.

In choosing a network service technology, a subscriber considers many features such as latency, jitter, packet loss, security, and availability. The most important feature, and usually the one that determines the final selection, is the service availability. In this article, a full spectrum of applications are studied, ranging from the minimal constraints of home networks to the rigorous demands of Industrial Ethernet Networks. This is followed by a thorough examination of Ethernet layer resilience technologies. This paper provides the resilience characteristics that are key for each class of application Ó

Actual home networks have become an heterogeneous environment in terms of technologies used and do not take into account any intelligent energy saving mechanism. In this paper we propose an energy saving strategy by integrating a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) with a high speed, hybrid home network. The main objective is to demonstrate that a WSN can act as a dependable control plane, where low data rate control packets can flow even when the high speed home network is shut down. While the home network nodes or some of each node's network technologies can be deactivate, the WSN is always on and, due to the low data rate required to properly work, it consumes a very limited quantity of energy. This mutual interaction between the high speed home network and the WSN allows at the same time to achieve the convergence of heterogeneous communication technologies in the home environment and leads to a substantial reduction of the energy consumptions. Simulation results show that this strategy is effective in a multitude of scenarios and provides a tangible economic benefit.

In this paper, we explore the benefits of videochat for families and the corresponding work that home users engage in to make a video call run smoothly. We explore the varieties of social work required, including coordination work, presentation work, behavioral work, and scaffolding work, as well as the technical work necessary. We outline the benefits families enjoy for doing this work and discuss the ways in which families use videochat to reinforce their identity as a family and reinforce their family values, in effect making -as in creating -love. We conclude with recommendations for improving videochat and for designing with family values in mind more generally.

This article describes a service-oriented solution framework designed for home environments. A pragmatic approach is developed to help integrate conventional home automation systems following the service oriented computing paradigm. We believe it is improbable that there will be a single dominant middleware for the home computing that would be right for different appliances. A number of middlewares have recently emerged and it is common knowledge that they haven't a sufficient degree of interoperability. Because of this, the authors show how the approach based on XML, Web Services, and Internet protocols, provide a uniform and novel architecture to cope with the architecture complexity in a open standard way. Furthermore a converging layer is conceived to incorporate a high level abstraction by an XML-based home automation language 1 .

Cloud computing allows accessing resources across Internet transparently: requiring no expertise in, or control over the underlying infrastructure. There is an increasing interest in sharing media files with family and friends. However, UPnP or DLNA were not designed for media distribution beyond the boundaries of a local network and manage media files through web applications can be tedious. To overcome this problem, we propose Media Cloud, a middleware for Set-top boxes for classifying, searching, and delivering media inside home network and across the cloud that interoperates with UPnP and DLNA 1 .

Dans ce document, nous confrontons une méthode de chiffrement opportuniste basée sur DNSsec aux contraintes des mobilités IPv4 et IPv6. Trois configurations de mobiles sont proposées. La première suppose une indépendance du mobile en termes de sécurité. La suivante suppose que la protection des communications du mobile doit être assurée par le réseau mère. La dernière étudie la possibilité pour le mobile de choisir la meilleure configuration de façon dynamique, suivant sa politique de sécurité. Les spécificités respectives de Mobile IPv4 et de Mobile IPv6, notamment au niveau du routage, nous conduisent à des aménagements et des considérations particulières sur la méthode de chiffrement opportuniste utilisée. ABSTRACT. In this paper, an opportunistic encryption scheme based upon DNSsec is put under the pressure of both Mobile IPv4 and Mobile IPv6. The mobile is proposed three settings. The first one assumes the mobile tackles its own security risks. The second one assumes the home network handles mobile's security. With the third setting, the opportunity for the mobile to choose dynamically its configuration according to its security policy is studied. Mobile IPv4 and Mobile IPv6 features, especially those relevant with routing, drive new setup and specific considerations about the opportunistic encryption scheme used. MOTS-CLÉS : Chiffrement Opportuniste, Mobilité IP, IPsec, DNSsec

We envision the next generation set-top box to be a communications and control device that serves as the residential gateway between an external broadband communication channel and an internal home network. This broadband residential network, as a whole, represents various services (such as cable programming, or games or other software available on the Internet, or a broker of such services) and devices (such as a networked toaster or other appliance, or a home computer, etc.). Our goal is to provide a web-based remote control interface for such a Set-Top Box. The interface needs to be dynamically reconfigurable as new services and devices are added into the residential network.

Broadcast commentary of sport contests is often seen as biased or “one-eyed” for the “home team”. This study sought to determine if this labelling was correct. Two different broadcasts of the national Dutch team's games during the 2006 Federation Internationale de Football Association's (FIFA) World Cup in Germany were compared. Both the Dutch Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) and Australian Special

Since the population of elderly people grows absolutely and in relation to the overall population in the world, the improvement of the quality of life of elderly people at home is of a great importance. This can be achieved through the development of generic technologies for managing their domestic ambient environment consisting of medical sensors, entertainment equipment, home automation systems and white goods, increasing their autonomy and safety. In this context, the provision intelligent interactive healthcare services will improve their daily life and allowing at the same time the continuous monitoring of their health and their effective treatment. This paper presents a multi-modal health and activity monitoring framework that enables abnormal event detection and long term evaluation of the health of the elderly people at home. We describe its integration with a Residential Gateway and provide details on the demonstration scenario developed, involving different kinds of sensing modules. This work is supported by the INHOME Project EU IST-045061-STP, http://www.ist-inhome.eu.

In this paper, we present a case study on the development of interfaces for elderly and disabled users. The domain of the case study was situated in the home environment, where we focused on producing affordable technologies to enable users to interact with and to control home appliances. We have developed ambient user interfaces that are integrated in familiar home