Digital Home Networking

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Romain CARBOU

1.1. Cultural context around a definition

1.2. A brief history of home automation

1.2.1. Stay naive and humble

1.2.2. Terminology around domotics

1.2.3. A bit of history

1.3. Coming to a definition of the digital home

1.3.1. What is in the digital home?

1.3.2. What is not in the digital home?

1.4. Plan of this book

1.5. Bibliography

Chapter 2. Actors in Digital Home Networking

Romain CARBOU

2.1. Scope

2.2. Categories of actors

2.2.1. Persons

2.2.2. Other home actors

2.2.3. Services and third parties

2.2.4. Legal bodies and public services

2.3. User roles

2.4. Bibliography

Chapter 3. Network Technologies

Pablo NAJERA and Ana NIETO

3.1. Local connectivity and networks

3.1.1. Background of LAN technologies

3.1.2. Ethernet

3.1.3. IEEE 802.11x

3.1.4. Bluetooth

3.1.5. IEEE 802.15.4

3.1.6. Comparison of LAN technologies

3.2. Connectivity to main networks

3.2.1. Technologies providing Internet access – an overview

3.2.2. xDSL

3.2.3. FTTH

3.2.4. 3G

3.2.5. WiMAX

3.2.6. Long-term evolution

3.2.7. Comparison of broadband technologies

3.3. Bibliography

Chapter 4. Standards

Rémi BARS, Jorge GOMEZ-MONTALVO, Mohamed MAHDI, Cristina ALCARAZ and Rodrigo ROMAN

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Standards used in the home

4.2.1. DLNA: Digital Living Network Alliance

4.2.2. UPnP

4.2.3. ZigBee

4.3. Remote access to homes

4.3.1. P2P and web service

4.3.2. UPnP remote access

4.3.3. HGI remote access

4.3.4. TISPAN remote access (based on UPnP RA:1)

4.3.5. ...