Information Technology

TECHNOLOGIES FOR HOME NETWORKING

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Advances in communications technology to seamlessly connect all types of home devices and appliances are driving the vision to create an intelligent home ecosystem. This would enable control, access, and information sharing among all the devices and thereby a much more enhanced user experience. The future growth of electronics at home lies in the devices being able to wire- lessly communicate among themselves and with one or more universal handheld portable multiradio devices (including other intelligent control points). Such a control device would be able to control the other wireless-enabled devices in a dis- tributed or centralized manner. All devices would in the future come with some type of a radio interface built into them. One could potentially conceive the giant intelligent “home system” as being distributed but connected in a modular fashion over a large-area wireless infrastructure. This naturally requires a vast amount of research in various aspects of networking, from privacy/security to high performance to seamless connectivity, emulating “being there” with the device or the equipment. Although there are currently handheld devices such as PDAs, PSPs, and iPODs, imagine one universal device (by which a person is still in control) with all of these features and more. Imagine this “wonder” device that can allow one to wire- lessly connect to (and control) one or more electronic devices within one’s house over an ad hoc network. Every new electronic device would come armed with an “antenna” to send and receive information and with some type of sensor built into it.

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: ., 2008

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1-239

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English

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978-0-470-07374-2

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TECHNOLOGIES FOR HOME NETWORKING

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