Technologies for Home Networking

by Sudhir Dixit (Editor)

A broad overview of the home networking field, ranging fromwireless technologies to practical applications In the future, it is expected that private networks (e.g., homenetworks) will become part of the global network ecosystem, participating in sharing their own content, running IP-basedservices, and possibly becoming service providers themselves. Thisis already happening in the so-called "social networks" andpeer-to-peer file sharing networks on the Internet--makingthis emerging topic one of the most active research areas in thewireless communications field.

This book bridges the gap between wireless networking andservice research communities, which, until now, have confined theirwork to their respective fields. Here, a number of industryprofessionals and academic experts have contributed chapters onvarious aspects of the subject to present an overview of homenetworking technologies with a special emphasis on the user as thecenter of all activities. Coverage includes:


Networked home use cases and scenarios


Media format, media exchange, and media interoperability


Location-aware device and service discovery


Security in smart homes


Secure service discovery protocol implementation for wirelessad-hoc networks


Multimedia content protection in consumer networks


Mobile device connectivity in home networks


Unlicensed mobile access/generic access network


Wireless sensor networks in the home


Ultra-wideband and sensor networking in the home environment


With a balanced mix of practice and theory, Technologies forHome Networking focuses on the latest technologies for speedier, more reliable wireless networking and explains how to facilitateworkable end-to-end solutions from a user's perspective. This bookis an ideal resource for practicing engineers, designers, andmanagers with an interest in home networking and also serves as avaluable text for graduate students.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2007