Interactive multimedia services to residential users
IEEE Communications Magazine
Home networks: a standards perspective
IEEE Communications Magazine
Home networking with Universal Plug and Play
IEEE Communications Magazine
The Open Services Gateway Initiative: an introductory overview
IEEE Communications Magazine
Service gateway architecture for a smart home
IEEE Communications Magazine
The integration of home-automation and IPTV system and services
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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Nowadays, wireline/wireless, mature and cost-effective solutions for both the access and the in-home network exist. Interconnecting the diverse in-home with the broadband access networks offers an unprecedented opportunity to increase the networking customer base beyond the satiated corporate environment. However, the large variety of noninteroperable residential and access networks retard the large deployment. In this paper, we briefly present a Home Network Architecture and a number of alternative access and indoor network media protocols. Moreover, we describe selected, higher-layer proposals and standardisation efforts, which aim to solve the interoperability problem. These technologies are independent from the physical medium and the lower layers, and aim to provide convergence between multiple home and access networks. Moreover, we propose a solution based on the Residential Gateway (RG) device. The RG is a single point of access and indoor networks convergence, which carries out the switching functions for telecommnnication, computing and entertainment service deliveries to the end-users.